Just Imagine
US (1930): Science Fiction/Musical/Dance
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 (El Brendel); he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21 (John Garrick), who can't marry the girl of his dreams , LN-18 (Maureen O'Sullivan), 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. (Jon Reeves, IMDb)
Musical numbers include "There's Something About an Old-Fashioned Girl," "Mothers Ought to Tell Their Daughters," "I Am the Words, You Are the Melody," "The Drinking Song," "Never Swat a Fly" and "The Romance of Elmer Stremingway." Best line in the film is when Brendel spies the Queen of Mars but then points to her mincing minion and states, "She's not the queen ... HE is."
1 nomination
· Art Direction/Set Decoration 1930-31: Stephen Goosson, Ralph Hammeras - Art Direction