DON’T WORRY WE’LL THINK OF A TITLE-1966-By the title you know where this is going. Three co-stars of TV’s THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW (in it’s last year in ‘66) star in this inane black and white comedy that seems more like a TV movie. Director Harmon Jones did do a lot of TV! In fact it’s the only movie he directed in the ‘60’s.
Morey Amsterdam plays an inept short order cook at a diner owned by Richard Deacon. Rose Marie is a waitress. Another waitress named Magda (January Jones) inherits a book store from her uncle. This is the only scene worth watching as the lawyer is played by Moe Howard! After Deacon fires the dumb duo they go to work at the bookstore.
Meanwhile Amsterdam is mistaken for a Russian cosmonaut. Two KGB agents follow him around. From one stupid scene to the other. The script (co-written by Amsterdam) is filled with clichéd jokes and puns. The first part has numerous famous cameos (Steve Allen, Nick Adams, Charley Weaver, Milton Berle, Percy Helton, Irene Ryan, Danny Thomas, Forrest Tucker and another Van Dyke co-star Carl Reiner).
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