Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2009 November 12 • Thursday

If you like movies like Frank Capra's Lady for a Day, then you'd probably enjoy The Young in Heart.

It's about a family of swindlers sponging off a rich old lady. They pretend to be decent, honest and hardworking—everything they can't stand—in the hope that she'll leave her fortune to them in her will.

This means that the family patriarch must, for the first time in his life, get a job. He finds work as a car salesman and does quite well at it, as you might expect.

When his employers discover that he is not, as he claims, a retired army colonel but actually a hustler who has spent his life cheating people out of their money, they promote him to sales manager.

The thing that struck me, though, is that the car he sells in the movie is my dream vehicle, or would be if it had better road clearance. When you honk the horn it plays Wagner's "Valkyrie" theme.

It gives me great pleasure to present The Flying Wombat!