Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 04/09/2002
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 85 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Image Entertainment
This offbeat
comedy finds a rotund, daydreaming projectionist (
Chuck McCann) who fantasizes that he is the super hero Captain Flash. He imagines his nemesis to be Renaldi (
Rodney Dangerfield), whom the projectionist refers to as "the Bat." Renaldi demands the lobby floor to be so clean he can eat off it. The film uses superimposition of older films, the first to employ such techniques. The projectionist imagines Rinaldi to be in league with the forces of evil like
Hitler,
Mussolini and space aliens. He is under the delusion that he must save a female co-worker (
Ina Balin) from the clutches of the evil Bat. The projectionist summons such heroes as
Errol Flynn,
Gary Cooper and the US Marine Corp to save her from imagined danger. This is the first feature length film for director
Harry Hurwitz, who also appears as an usher. This also marks the film debut for
Rodney Dangerfield, who had recently changed his name from his given name of
Jack Roy and opened a nightclub. The film premiered at the
Rochester Film Festival in 1969. It has earned cult status over the years and is in the archives of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York.
~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
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