Writer's Block: The Kids' Section
As a kid it was a toss up between "We're No Angels" with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray, and the 3 & 4 Musketeers films from the 70's with Michael York, Richard Chamberlain, and Charlton Heston. Seeing the three convicts in Angels trying to be bad but unable to keep themselves from helping the merchant's family, and that there were other people that belonged on Devil's Island far more than they made for a delightful comedy. With the Musketeers it was swashbuckling action, comedy, a love interest as serious as death that made it a favorite.
These days my favorite is little known film called "Year of the Comet" with Tim Daly and Penelope Anne Miller. It is a predictable little romantic comedy about a plucky young woman out to prove herself on her first outing as a buyer for her family's wine brokerage, an unsophisticated swashbuckling trouble shooter sent to recover one of the bottles she has found, and a host of bumbling thieves trying to steal the bottle for all of the wrong reasons. When I first saw the film I was able to quote a significant portion of the dialogue before they said it on screen. That said the dialogue and interplay between Tim and Penelope was a delight and the whole thing came off like one of the better episodes of Moonlighting.
I will amend the current choice with this caveat, when the director's cut of The Watchmen comes out on DVD I may have to switch to it as a current favorite.
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