On one level, "Who's Minding the Mint?" is one of those zany comedies that they cranked out in the '60s. But I will assert that it is a real laugh riot. Portraying a nervous employee (Jim Hutton) of the US Mint accidentally losing $50,000 and having to hire a gaggle of people - all of whom want to get paid - to help him reprint it, I get the feeling that they had a lot of fun filming the movie. It would certainly look funny to have the police wonder why an employee, plus George Washington (Milton Berle), a sea captain (Victor Buono), a boy scout (Joey Bishop), a ballerina (Dorothy Provine) and a deaf man (Jack Gilford) have broken into the Mint. Not to mention Bob Denver as an ice cream man having to occupy a nosy woman (his character has a slight tinge of Gilligan).
So, the movie is more than just silly fun. Like Milton Berle and Dorothy Provine's previous cooperation ("It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"), it shows greed taking over in what was supposed to be something simple. Speaking of Dorothy Provine, I would like to assert that we have not given her the credit that she deserves. True, she retired from the screen years ago, but with "WMTM?" and "IAMMMMW" and "The Great Race" to her resume, she has earned her recognition.
So, I definitely recommend the movie. Knowing how Dorothy Provine looked in that ballerina outfit, I wonder how she felt (or what she looked like underneath).
So, the movie is more than just silly fun. Like Milton Berle and Dorothy Provine's previous cooperation ("It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"), it shows greed taking over in what was supposed to be something simple. Speaking of Dorothy Provine, I would like to assert that we have not given her the credit that she deserves. True, she retired from the screen years ago, but with "WMTM?" and "IAMMMMW" and "The Great Race" to her resume, she has earned her recognition.
So, I definitely recommend the movie. Knowing how Dorothy Provine looked in that ballerina outfit, I wonder how she felt (or what she looked like underneath).