The Brass Bottle

1964 "Lookout world! Nothing's going to be the same again!"
The Brass Bottle
6.3| 1h27m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 20 May 1964 Released
Producted By: Universal Pictures
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A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.

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mark.waltz Produced by the new Universal in the swingin' 60's, this is a throwback to the type of pictures they had done in the 1940's. You remember, those colorful adventure fantasies with exotic performers like Maria Montez, Sabu, Turhan Bey and Jon Hall. Now there's equally exotic performers-Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Edward Andrews, and the most exotic of them all, Burl Ives. Big Daddy puts away his stetson and replaces them with ancient Arabic clothing as he gets out of the titled brass bottle (imprisoned centuries before by King Solomon the Wise) and freed by Randall who is anxious to prove that what he hoped was an antique was not, as suggested, made in Japan. Engaged to the future Jeannie, Randall keeps messing up in her father Edward Andrews' eyes, and after losing his job thanks to Ives' interference, creates more tension with his father- in-law to be. The sensual atmosphere of the 1960's mixes with the camp comedy of the 1940's to create a fun family film.Randall's a charming leading man, especially trying on a girdle, but it is Ives of course who ends up the scene stealer. He's the Edmund Gwenn and Cecil Kellaway of the 60's, adding the genie to Gwenn's Santa Claus and Kellaway's leprechaun of fantasy characters. There will be much curiosity over Eden involved in this project considering her involvement with another brass bottle just a few years later. It really does seem like a combination of "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Bewitched" episodes, especially by mixing business into the pleasure.
hmcusn294 I first watched this movie in the theater when it came out and have wanted to see it again ever since. When I saw that it was available on DVD I rushed my order in and have watched it four times since receiving it. Burl Ives is perfect as the Genie FakRash Alamash, and Tony Randall makes the perfect foil for his chicanery.Barbara Eden is beautiful, and as others have noted, this movie was no doubt her passport to her role in "My Favorite Genie." Edward Andrews gave one of his usual great performances as the father of her character.My favorite scene was the dinner party that Randall gave for his fiancé and her parents when the Genie FakRash converted his home into an Arabian Nights style magical palace, complete with exotic foods and slaves, and featuring the incredible belly dancing of Lulu Porter. I still laugh out loud every time I see Edward Andrews reaction to the eyes of lamb roasted in honey.This is a movie that everyone should see and enjoy. It came out about the same time as "Bell, Book and Candle," a comedy about witchcraft featuring James Stewart and Kim Novak. Maybe themes of magic and spells were reflective of the mood of America in that post war time of ease and a booming economy.
mrlucky2041 This was a movie I saw in the theater when I was a kid and have been looking for it for the last 15 or so years. The VHS tape is available on amazon for a ridiculous price so I haven't bought it but now that I see everyone else's comments I understand why. I too wish that the studio would release it on DVD and I would get a copy as soon as they did.To the person that remembered the scenes with the businessmen floating in the pitcher clinging to the Pencil, and the female Genie, I remember it too. IMDb doesn't list her in the credits but I remember her being a beautiful lady. Makes me wonder what else she did.It's rather curious how I came to think of this movie. I was thinking of the actor who played Kang on Star Trek TOS because he played a technomaige (sp) named Elric on Babylon 5 and looked him up only to find (and remember) that he was married to Barbara Eden and thought of this movie because I remembered she played Tony Randall's GF. I guess the idea of the Genie is deep in my memory from when I was an even younger boy and my parents bought me the story of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp on record those many years ago. "New Lamps for Old"! Anyone remember that? My how the time has past. I am not a big Tony Randall fan but I liked him in this. I keep thinking of him Honking in the Odd Couple series. Though that was his most famous role, he did loads more. Unfortunately I see him as more like Felix than any of his other roles. I seem to remember him in a movie with Rock Hudson A long time ago too. Now that would have seemed to have been more his type than Barbara Eden if we had known Rock as well then as we do now. Well Gooooooleeee Sargent Carter!!!! hehehehee Still it was a great movie and I would love to own a copy of it. It was Burl Ives' best roll. Much better than Rudolph's Narrator.
mdsofky I remember seeing this on an afternoon movie show as a kid and loved it. For a movie of its age, it actually had some decent special effects (however, maybe if I saw it today, it wouldn't be as good as we are spoiled by all the computer generated stuff they can do now).I loved I Dream of Jeannie, and was familiar with that show before I saw this movie. It was odd seeing Barbara Eden in the non-genie role.The scene that stands out is when Burl Ives has no effect on some girl genie and shoots all these sparks out of his hands at her (am I dreaming this??). Or when he shrinks some business men and they are floating in a glass or pitcher or something and hanging on to a pencil (that sounds weird, and maybe I'm getting senile in my old age, but that's what I remember! :) ).Cute movie.