Thursday, April 10, 2008

I Dream of Jeannie: Bigger Than a Bread Box (1966) (TV)

Synopsis [ spoilers]: Jeannie creates a swimming pool for Tony to swim in before he goes to work; after he has swimmed, Tony makes her get rid of it so as not to arouse any suspicions. Roger finds a fortune teller, Madame Zolta, and Tony thinks there is foul play, so he asks Roger to introduce her to him, which he does. She invites both for a seance where they will try to contact Tony's dead uncle and aunt, which in reality he invented to test Madame Zolta. Jeannie is curious about the fortune teller, and a little jealous too, and despite Tony's orders that she stays home she sneaks in at the seance. Dr. Bellows shows up too. Jeannie, unnoticed by all, starts making all sorts of supernatural things happen, including an apparition of Tony's imaginary relatives. She tops it all with a cake she creates, and which at her command is thrown at Madame Zolta's face. Dr. Bellows passes out. Tony talks to his friend in the police, which reveals that Madame Zolta and her friend, a phony fakir, are in fact two real estate crooks, who had conned people into buying worthless land, and were now trying to gather information about some land in the vicinity of Nasa's base. Tony argues with Jeannie about the powers of crystal balls and Jeannie traps him inside one for some seconds.

Saw it dubbed in Portuguese.

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