The Sunshine Boys
THE SUNSHINE BOYS (PG)
D: Herbert Ross
MGM/Rastar (Ray Stark)
US 1975
111 mins
Comedy
W: Neil Simon [based on his
play]
DP: David M. Walsh
Ed: John F. Burnett
Mus: Harry V. Lojewski
Walter Matthau (Willy Clark), George
Burns (Al Lewis), Richard Benjamin (Ben Clark), Carol Arthur (Doris Green)
The Odd Couple formula gets a re-jig, starring Walter
Matthau and George Burns, both in top form, as a pair of feuding comedians who are reunited for a TV show and ultimately ruin it.
It's all a one-joke sketch stretched to fill a feature
length running time, but works simply due to the Matthau-Burns double act, the former as the deadpan act whilst the latter steals the movie with all the very best
one-liners.
7/10
