Saturday, July 06, 2013

As Young as You Feel (1951)

A printing worker is fired because of age, and devises an extraordinary way to get his job back.

*spoilers follow*

A silly film, which appears to have been made with propaganda purposes. I do not know whether there was an organization behind it, or just the producer's initiative. The point to be made here is that older people should be cherished as valuable members of the workforce. The problem is that the film is neither funny nor rational. Apparently the way they found to demonstrate that Mr. Hodges is a good printer was by showing he was a good... dancer! As for his speech, he expresses the perfectly inane notion that keeping the elderly at their jobs is an efficient inflation-fighting technique. And of course only the extremely naïve will find it credible that the corporate owner will become friends with his impersonator and even want to hire him as an advisor.

Rating: 13

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