If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)

Great little movie, stellar cast! It was like a precursor to The Love Boat.

You're right, OP. Hilarie Thompson should be a DL fave. After all, she played Marge, the game operator that Greg Brady tries to pick up at King's Island!

How could you forget Patricia Routledge!

Hilarie Thompson was also in an episode of 'I Dream of Jeannie.'

She was everywhere!

I constantly use this reference if someone asks me t day it is and it's Tuesday

"If this is London, why is it raining?"

I totally forgot Patricia Routledge was in there, R3. No slight intended.

But Hilarie Thompson! Right???

All it needed was Vivian Vance, Reta Shaw, and Thelma Ritter and it would've been in the DL Film Pantheon.

Rewatched it last night, I last saw it on some cable channel a decade ago.

The ending is quite radical for its time. Even now, the female character saying the sex was great and I like you but you’re not husband material would make a statement.

Ms Pleshette was one of those actors who had a career I would chose every time over an A List movie star. On YT, I saw her with Vic Morrow in a movie that filmed in Istanbul and of course she was in Rome Adventure. My BIL met her in the 80s filming in New Orleans. I’d love that kind of vagabond life while still being able to go out and live like a normal person.

The cameo by Patricia Routledge is a gem too.

There’s a character named “Harry Dicks??”

I’m in.

I loved this movie. And Ian McShane. Where did you find it?

Did anyone watch the 1987 sequel with Courtney Cox? It’s really bad.

YouTube has the full movie.

Oh god, Hilarie Thompson is married to Alan Ormsby, who I only know from his one role as the queeny, ascot-wearing (and imaginatively named) Alan in the light zombie horror/dark comedy film "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things."

DL Fave Hilarie Thompson!

[quote]JOAN COLLINS!!!

All she does is cross the King's Road in a mini dress.

I love the Donovan segment.

I prefer the 1981 cover of "Lord Of The Reedy River" by Kate Bush.

^^ I don't.

I like Mary's version better than that.

You've never heard of Mary Hopkin?

Have you heard of Toyah Willcox?

This is her very famous song. Listen to it all the way through. Paul McCartney produced it when he was still a Beatle. It was a HUGE international hit and number one everywhere.

I'm old enough to have seen IITTMBB in the theater. I remember that my mother really liked it.

[quote]Have you heard of Toyah Willcox?

LOL.

Have you heard of Jackie Trent?

Love this movie and have it forever saved on my Smart TV. Ian McShane is a god!

I always loved Reva Rose. She plays Norma Fell's wife who gets lost and winds up on a Japanese tour bus. She deserved a better career.

I saw her as the original Lucy in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, way back in 1967.

[quote] She plays Norma Fell's wife

Mr. Roper transitioned?

from Ice-T

[quote]Got to work with one of my Favorite Actors on the 1st SVU episode of the new season! Mr Ian Mcshane... Coolest dude ever....

Hilarie Thompson!

Watching it now on Prime Video. Mr. Ian McShane was a crumpety snack in this. Sandy Baron was cute too in a nerdy way. Suzanne Pleshette was gorgeous.

Of course, if they remade it today, everybody would be absorbed in their phones and the horny teen couple would be posting on their OnlyFans.

I love this scene.

Two old soldiers remembering their war time experiences at Bastogne.

[quote]I always loved Reva Rose.

She also did a couple of episodes of "That Girl". I think Marlo Thomas kept getting jealous of other actresses because the sidekicks never lasted very long.

Great movie and especially wonderful scenery all over Europe, so good armchair travel while we're stuck in place. Very funny film, great cast! Peggy Cass, Mildred Natwick, Reva Rose, Norman Fell, and stars Ian McShane (very hot and randy) and lovely Suzanne Pleshette! I watched on Amazon Prime recently.

Counterfeit 😇 Angel Hilarie

50 years old next month. In the NY are it was a huge hit with a successful run at Radio City Music Hall before it opened wide and would come back regularly as a bottom half of a double feature.

I remember near the end one of the male tourists was in Rome and goes into a suitably decripit shoe shop. He points to some shoes, wanting tan custom made Italian shoes. What he points to the shoemaker interprets as white and brown. The shoemaker, as soon as the tourist is gone, pulls out a catalouge and leafs through it until he finds the tourist's shoe size. It was a scam all along! That and a close up of Peggy Cass's... fleshy, shall I say? Upper arm, getting jabbed for all dem (sic) European diseases we in America had so valiantly conquered!

I love it when Murray Hamilton and Peggy Cass can’t figure out what the bidet is .... Also fun - the kleptomaniac who steals his telephone after he receives his wake up call. ..... I haven’t seen it in a long time - when the young guy (was it Sandy Baron’s character?) was trying to escape his potential father in law and was hiding in the bathroom - the Italian man kept shouting out a name - I can’t think of it .... Oh and Marty Ingals snapping photos under women’s skirts ..... Okay - I am off to Fondue Fling Night! ......”That’s how I lost Irma - Cheese.”

I remember watching the episode where Alice quits and the Brady's get another maid who's ALSO white- in the 1970's. I asked my mother why are their maids always white ( because in the early 1970's ours were ALWAYS black). She said they didn't want to offend anyone. Even in ca. 1973 I think it was the twilight zone that an Upper Middle Class family in the VALLEY would have a white maid.

Luke Halpin

R35, that brought back such memories!

Hilarie did a great Counterfeit Sabrina!

DVR Alert "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium" TCM Thursday, May 13, 2021 4:15PM

Thanks, R42!!!!!!!!

I'm watching it right now, for free, on youtube!

Fun movie, for someone who's stuck at home with a broken leg.

I did too! More fun than I expected, with some sharp observations. And yes, Donovan, a crush from back when.

It comes through clearly that everyone had loads of fun filming this.

That "Lord of the Reedy River" song has been running through my head for hours now! Lovely song, quite the earworm, and it worked perfectly in the context of the film. In a movie about people rushing around and failing to appreciate all the beauty and wonder they were being show, it's the one moment in the film where we're given a moment to just appreciate something lovely.

A question: Was Donovan straight?

It's on TCM today. Right after that other DL classic, "Where the Boys Are."

Not only is this film very funny with a great cast of comic actors from the time who you saw all the time on tv, but the scenery in different countries will make you feel a bit like you're taking a foreign vacation right now, which since lots of us aren't traveling, will really help with some wanderlust.

OMG I had just come back from a tour of Spain and Portugal with my parents when this movie came out... It was pretty much spot on. It was hurry and look at the left window before we pass whatever treasure was in that particular country

I saw it when it came out. I loved it having, like R52, just been on such a tour.

We went on a family tour in 1967 when I was 17. It was a blast, every day either a new town or country and so many beautiful charming places to experience. England, Germany, France, and Italy There were other teens on the tour and we hung out together. It was so memorable that when I graduated from college I saved all my money and went back with a couple of friends for almost four months, traveling from place to place with our Europass train cards, just hopping on and off trains, using the tourist bureaus at each station to find lodgings. It was quite common in those years for the college-aged to spend time in Europe gadding about.

My nieces and nephews aren't doing that, they're going straight into busy careers. My age group was lucky to live in an era when the cost of living and travel was really cheap. We spent $1.50 a night for a great room we found in Athens, an older couple we met spent $40 because they booked in advance.

That's a great story R52. I was 13 when we went as a family in 68. I loved Sand P so much I begged my dad to send me on a teen tour 3 yrs later. He did and I spent the summer on a tour bus (same hurry and look out the window before we pass it) with people my own age...I'm sure I've been "flagged" almost all over the world. We really raised a shit load of hell from Switzerland to Israel.

R35- She looked SO OLD by 1979.

R55 I thought you were talking about Mildred Natwick.

Oh...it's on Prime...going to watch it for the first time in almost 50 yrs

Love this movie. I used to watch it with my grandmother every time it was on tv. Good memories.

"If It's" Tuesday It Must Be Beverly" is a terrific Murder, She Wrote episode

Just watched it, via YouTube (Full movie available for those without cable.) So many throwaway lines I missed before.

(Group looking at Mannequin Pis in Belgium:) "I thought it would be bigger." "He's just a little boy."

Our local station used to play it several times a year and I never missed it. My mother would sometimes watch with me, because she knew before I did.

Suzanne Pleshette was really gorgeous, never noticed she had big blue eyes on TV.

Why did people stop dressing nicely!?

Only 13 years later I was born and people were looking like Twisted Sister and 80s Madonna.

Wtf changed? Go back to class.

R62 she was stunning. Once she got rid of those stiff, sprayed in hairstyles, her beauty was able to shine through

They had to style her down in Newhart. Bob married to a knockout beauty would not have worked.

R63 in about 1968.

Not only does the leading character have sex with the hot guide and dump him to go live her own life, the teen girl also screws the protestor guy and expresses no regret when they go their separate ways.

That was a massive change for Hollywood, which had spent the last 60-odd years insisting that having sex meant that the woman, at least, was making a lifetime commitment.

I am old enough to have seen this when it opened wide across the U.S. And the premise gave me wanderlust that persists to this day. I bought a Blu-ray version on eBay a while back and immediately felt drawn to world travel like I did watching it for the first time in the theater.

The fact that Pleshette and McShane don't end up together was radical for the time. Imagine: a rom-com with no happy ending.

I spent the better part of three weeks in Venice back in 2019, divided between two visits. So I was struck by how dirty the canal was that Sandy Baron jumped into. You can see trash floating back then in the water. Venice's canals are so much cleaner today. Or at least they appear to be.

I had a huge crush on Luke Halpin back in the day and re-watching the movie brought back those memories.

I grew up in Charlotte NC and seeing a couple in the movie who said they were from Charlotte NC was very cool as a kid. Great movie

Directed by Mel Stuart, whose other big movie was "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."