Not having learned my lesson six months ago by watching They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way, I watched another Tim Conway movie, The Billion Dollar Hobo.
Not having learned my lesson six months ago by watching They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way, I watched another Tim Conway movie, The Billion Dollar Hobo.
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#1 by ronald on January 29, 2018 - 5:35 pm
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Supposedly, in the early 20th century, some people, lured by the song of the open road or the voice of adventure beckoning or some such nonsense, left their ordinary lives behind to become hoboes. So hoboism isn’t synonymous with homelessness. FWIW.
The random power of memory allows me to recall a bit of dialogue (no guarantee of 100% accuracy) from a 1970s/1980s TV pilot about some hoboes who inherited a fortune but whose title eludes me: One of the main characters explains the hierarchy of homelessness:
“A *hobo* is a migratory worker. A *tramp* is a migratory NON-worker. A *bum* is a NON-migratory NON-worker. You lay a bum down somewhere, he’ll be there til he dies.”
#2 by Fuzzy on January 29, 2018 - 6:24 pm
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I have to say, for art that looks like it was thrown together in Photoshop in an hour or two, the DVD cover has some nice attention to detail. (Mainly the somewhat period-accurate bills.)
As for the movie itself… I have a feeling that Tim Conway is capable of being funny, under very exacting circumstances. Some comedians can make the best of a bad film, while others need a strong script to balance out any weaknesses they have; from what little I’ve become familiar with (thanks to your reviews), Conway is one of the latter.