Champagne for Caesar - anyone?

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Champagne for Caesar - anyone?

#1 Post by frogman042 » Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:19 pm

So, my thread on non-competitive game shows reminded be of this movie that I haven't seen in over 30 years: "Champagne for Caeser" with Ronald Coleman and Vincent Price. Ronald Coleman is the super knowledgable person who enters a game show where the bet doubles on each question and he never misses. It was really good (as I remember it) and it should be (IMHO) the official movie of the bored.

Does anyone else remember this gem. It looks like amazon carries it - so I may just have to order it to see if it still holds up.

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Re: Champagne for Caesar - anyone?

#2 Post by Here's Fanny! » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:04 pm

frogman042 wrote:So, my thread on non-competitive game shows reminded be of this movie that I haven't seen in over 30 years: "Champagne for Caeser" with Ronald Coleman and Vincent Price. Ronald Coleman is the super knowledgable person who enters a game show where the bet doubles on each question and he never misses. It was really good (as I remember it) and it should be (IMHO) the official movie of the bored.

Does anyone else remember this gem. It looks like amazon carries it - so I may just have to order it to see if it still holds up.

---Jay
Happy Hogan: You have five seconds to tell us the Japanese word for goodbye. 1... 2...
Beauregard Bottomley: Siyonara. Not to be confused with cyanide, which is, of course, goodbye in any language.
Wasn't that a Twilight Zone episode as well? Or maybe I'm getting it confused with the Hitchcock story with John Huston and the lighter (was Steve McQueen the Zippo guy)?
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#3 Post by TheConfessor » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:08 pm

Have you read "Brainiac" by Ken Jennings? As I recall, that movie is prominently mentioned.
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#4 Post by mellytu74 » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:26 pm

Jay --

I remember loving that movie and, yeah, I haven't seen it in 30 years, either.

IIRC, Mel Blanc played the voice of a parrot. And wasn't Art Linkletter a game show host?

Who was the leading lady? I don't remember
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#5 Post by traininvain » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:41 pm

Back in the day when we weren't inundated with channels and tons of films of lesser quality being shown over and over again......I remember l watching this gem of a film on The Late Late Show. Haven't seen it in years, but my best memory of it is "Dirty Water" & Einstein's Theory of Relativity, but I could be mistaken.

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#6 Post by nitrah55 » Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:46 am

The only part of that movie I recall is the ending, where Art Linkletter asks a question that stumps Ronald Colman.

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