My mind is blown after watching The Cool Ones
I just watched the 1967 movie The Cool Ones with the adorable Roddy McDowall and 60's icon Nita Talbot. It featured Mrs. Miller, who was great, of course, and included a young Teri Garr, too, but the rest of the film was jaw-droppingly awful. So bad it was good awful.
For those not familiar with it, The Cool Ones is a musical with groovy (used loosely) young people in the cast, but I had the toughest time trying to figure out who the audience for this thing was supposed to be. The young male singer actually wore a comb-back--in 1967! No one wore comb-backs then. I realized its audience was 50-year-olds. I was young in 1967, and no young person would give this movie a second look.
The "new" songs (Lee Hazelwood) were dreadful (even in 1967), but many of the songs were rock 'n rollified versions of standards--Birth of the Blues, Just One of Those Things, Secret Love, and What is This Thing Called Love? Yeah, they groovified Cole Porter.
Bad music, sitcomesque acting and dialogue, Hollywood-groovy costumes (the fake groovy stuff, like in Elvis movies), a satifyingly moronic plot, annoying female lead (Debbie Watson), and the incomparable Mrs. Miller make this 2D trip a memorable one.
I watched this on Warner Archive's streaming video.