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    Out of Towners, The (1970)

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    Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are brilliant as the Kellermans, the “out of towners” of the title, who fly from Twin Oaks, Ohio, to New York City for a job interview.

    Lemmon is George, an executive who’s hoping to take up the post as Vice President of Sales for his company. Sandy is his nervous young wife.

    They discover to their constant distress that the whole of New York seems to have picked the very day on which they arrive in town to go out on strike en masse.

    Neil Simon’s script is very clever and more than matched by the acting. It’s actually an episode from his play Plaza Suite, other parts of which were also filmed under that name in the same year.

    As a comedy of errors, it almost becomes overbearing. Its tongue-in-cheek tone, however, keeps the comedy afloat.

    The final hijack scene was originally cut for American television, killing the punchline completely.

    A 1999 remake starred Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn.

    George Kellerman
    Jack Lemmon
    Gwen Kellerman
    Sandy Dennis
    Lenny, TV man
    Sandy Baron
    Boston cabbie
    Ron Carey
    Officer Meyers
    Phil Bruns
    Murray
    Graham Jarvis
    Cuban diplomat
    Carlos Montalban
    Sergeant Kovaleski
    Dolph Sweet
    Lost-and-found clerk
    Billy Dee Williams

    Director
    Arthur Hiller

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