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Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Dan-13 "Who's Minding the Mint?" has to rank as one of the funniest movies that sadly most people have probably never seen. Director Howard Morris does an amazing job of juggling comedy with caper, thanks in no small part to having a brilliant ensemble of second bananas who make the whole thing seem effortless. As the hapless U.S. mint employee who accidentally destroys $50,000 in freshly minted bills and then has to replace them with the help of some of the most inept accomplices imaginable, Jim Hutton is the perfect straight man to this assortment of loonies. Tops among them are Jack Gilford who's a riot as a hard-of-hearing safe cracker, Victor Buono as former Navy man turned amusement park ride operator and Milton Berle as a pawn shop owner. There are also great bits by Dorothy Provine as a naive mint worker smitten with Hutton, Jamie Farr as a lookout who can't speak English, Joey Bishop as Berle's best customer whose entire apartment is in hock, Bob Denver as an ice cream vendor and Walter Brennan as a former mint worker who has to take along his expectant beagle Icky on the night of the big heist. Icky, played by Peanuts, holds her own with these pros, and earns big laughs as she searches throughout the Mint for a spot to have her puppies.The movie is perfect family entertainment and a million laughs from beginning to end. If you're looking for a real feel-good movie, "Who's Minding the Mint?" is money in the bank.

ptb-8 Caper comedies were a genre of all star and big laugh films of the 60s that almost were the opposite to star studded epics. Usually 9 or so B grade TV clebs were offered roles supporting each other in a robbery/family/holiday/suburban film, as a result we were treated in big old cinemas full of laughing families with a dozen or so... the most famous being MAD MAD WORLD and TOPKAPI. There were the teen star pix from AIP like BEACH PARTY and SKI PARTY etc where a dozen TV kids and 6 pop groups all appeared in a holiday film. BUONA SERA MRS CAMPBELL is a good adult one. Inbetween was a film like MINT. The genre culminated with WITH SIX YOU GET EGGROLL and YOURS MINE AND OURS. I think the last was the wonderful ANGEL IN MY POCKET ...with Andy Griffith and COLD TURKEY in 1971. We also got divorce comedies like NOT WITH MY WIFE YOU DON'T and DIVORCE American STYLE, which followed WHAT A WAY TO GO. So, WHO'S MINDING THE MINT is a all star genre comedy for families that involves TV stars now in a real movie and is about a gentle 'robbery' and wacky Uncle and Aunty type characters. Like a Don Knotts movie. As a kid I loved it and as a teen I often showed it to school groups in holiday halls. Other comments will tell you the story but let me assure you it is a terrific family DVD night possibility if every 'they' release it. One unforgettable scene in a boat in a underground canal has a hilarious 'Washington crossing the Delaware' joke about it.

jbacks3 I've got a slight bone to pick. I remember seeing this. back in '67 in a Saturday afternoon matinée. Twenty-eight years later I began working for the Treasury Dept. There is no Mint in Washington D.C. Jim Hutton works for the Bureau of Engraving & Printing which ain't the Mint. The Mint produces coins, but I suppose having the ever-scheming Hutton walk out of the Mint with a 52 lb bag of quarters wrapped in fudge would suspend disbelief a little too far. The under-rated director, Howard (Ernest T. Bass) Morris did a pretty decent job with the material and it sort of plays like a somewhat less frenetic It's a Mad, Mad, Mad (etc.) World. 3 out of *****.

monk-18 Why doesn't this get more respect? Each time I see this (now going on #8) it gets better as surrealism in commercial 1960s America. The cast is stellar and performances are memorable. The plot is sufficiently twisted to make this late-night TV movie a classic of one error that leads to many more errors at ridiculous lengths. I have too many favorite scenes here to claim one as a favorite. The straight man Jim Hutton is more patient than required by the role of the straight man. His attempt to rescue cash lost in a garbage disposal leads to an unlikely but ever-growing payroll of a deaf safe-cracker (Jack Gilford),pompous toy boat captain Victor "My only aversion to vice is the price" Buono, Bob Denver, Milton Berle with a face of green ink mistaken for George Washington by a drunk staring down a sewer, and a pregnant dog in scuba gear.Whatever can go wrong will, including the place of this farce amongst other American farces.