Just Imagine
A STORY OF LIFE AND LOVE IN 1980!
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
- 5.8
- 1930
- Released
- 1h 53m
El Brendel
Single O
Maureen O'Sullivan
LN-18
John Garrick
J-21
Marjorie White
D-6
Frank Albertson
RT-42
Hobart Bosworth
Hobart BosworthHobart Bosworth
Z-4
Mischa Auer
B-36
George Irving
Head of Marriage Tribunal (uncredited)Released
en
- #future
- #pre-code
- #speculative
Reviews
Yikes, but this is a mess of a film! It starts with some archive of a very peaceful New York in 1880 before advancing us fifty years to a city of hustle and bustle; motor cars and electricity. This is where a poor soul is victim to that latter invention - whilst playing golf - and resuscitated with the name of "Single O" (El Brendel). A bit of a fish out of water, he befriends the disgruntled "J-2