I remember the preview of "Fire Sale", it had Don DeLouise starting to announce this film as being something you surely shouldn't miss, when a couple of painters carrying a ladder walk in front of him which makes him stop and he silently cusses them out. He was right, if you missed Fire Sale in the theatres you missed it and it has vanished like something into the twilight zone. In the early '80s I knew a guy who had seen the movie but since then nobody but me has ever mentioned it. I just ran down a movie from 1968 called "Project X" and it took me a year and a half to get a copy of it, it cost me a thousand dollars, and I had to convince the studio to give it to me, and they gave it to me for free when I finally convinced them the movie was long lost, I don't think they knew it was. It may be a similar situation with "Fire Sale", I think that I'm going to make my next project to get "Fire Sale".
Leonard Maltin's review of this movie was horrible. Calling it a black comedy is ridiculous! Nobody is killed, nothing gruesome happens, maybe no bad language, (I forget). It's a very main stream comedy, with big name stars, of the same type as "It's A Mad, Mad World". The scene with the brothers trying to insure their Comatose dad would be a classic if they would'nt hide this film away like some kind of lost treasure.
Leonard Maltin's review of this movie was horrible. Calling it a black comedy is ridiculous! Nobody is killed, nothing gruesome happens, maybe no bad language, (I forget). It's a very main stream comedy, with big name stars, of the same type as "It's A Mad, Mad World". The scene with the brothers trying to insure their Comatose dad would be a classic if they would'nt hide this film away like some kind of lost treasure.