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Good Times is a 1967 American Western musical comedy film directed by William Friedkin in his feature directorial debut, starring Sonny & Cher. The film also co-stars George Sanders, Norman Alden, Larry Duran, Kelly Thordsen, and Lennie Weinrib.




Plot


Sonny and Cher appear as themselves in this spoof of various genres, including mysteries, Westerns, Tarzan films and spy thrillers. The plot revolves around a film contract offered to Sonny by powerful executive Mr. Mordicus, played by George Sanders, who also plays the antagonist in each of Sonny's ideas for the proposed film, which are played out in a number of skits featuring music and dancing by the star duo.




Cast


Sonny Bono as Sonny
Cher as Cher
George Sanders as Mr. Mordicus / Knife McBlade / White Hunter / Zarubian
Norman Alden as Warren
Larry Duran as Smith
Kelly Thordsen as Tough Hombre
Lennie Weinrib as Leslie Garth
Peter Robbins as Brandon
Phil Arnold as Solly




Production


Sonny Bono wanted to make a film starring him and Cher and was introduced to William Friedkin, a young documentary filmmaker who had just moved into drama and who, like Bono, was represented by the William Morris Agency. They got along well and Abe Lastfogel persuaded Steve Broidy to agree to finance a film.
Bono and Friedkin started reading through scripts and received a letter from novice screenwriter Nicholas Hyams, who suggested Sonny and Cher make a film about them making a film. Hyams was hired, but Friedkin says the collaboration with him was not easy: "He was condescending to Sonny and disdainful of me." Hyams was fired and Friedkin and Bono wound up writing the script themselves based on Hyams' original idea. Broidy wanted to call the film I Got You Babe but Bono preferred Good Times, based on a song he was writing at the time. All songs in the film were released on a soundtrack album.
The film was originally meant to be made for $500,000, but the budget came in at $800,000. Broidy then sold the film to Columbia for $1.2 million, ensuring he was in profit before shooting even began.




Reception


Good Times received poor-to-middling reviews as a pastiche of so-so skits, though one critic credited veteran character actor Sanders for making the film "slightly less unbearable."
Friedkin later commented that "I've made better films than Good Times but I've never had so much fun".




= Box office

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The film earned $600,000 in rentals domestically and $200,000 internationally. After the distribution fee, prints and advertising and the negative cost were deducted, ABC reported a loss of $1,050,000.




See also


List of American films of 1967




References






= Bibliography

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External links


Good Times at IMDb
Good Times at AllMovie
Good Times at Rotten Tomatoes
Good Times at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Good Times at the TCM Movie Database

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