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Thursday, November 18, 2021
GOING THY WAY/ GOING WAY OUT
GOING MY WAY (1944)
dir: Leo McCarey
GOING THY WAY/GOING WAY OUT
MAD #160, July 1973
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Angelo Torres
Famous movie about a "cool" preacher, Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby) transferred to a new parish to assist the more conservative Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), who's initially turned off by his unconventional ways but warms up to them when he turns the church around.
O'Malley proves to the local juvenile delinquents priests can be "hip" by beating them at pool and convinces them to join the church choir.
O'Malley's work is done, so now he's on his way.
Of course, we all know the real reason he was transferred.
Sorry, that was uncalled for. Here's an updating of the movie. Updating for then at least. the difference between 1944 and 1973 is 29 years but the difference between 1973 and now is 48 years.
The Bing Crosby character has been replaced by Donald Sutherland.
And instead of pool-playing juvenile delinquents, the parishioners are all draft-dodging hippies
Or MAD's impression of what hippies were. Along with free love, drug use, political activism, and Eastern religion, they include Satan worship.
The "hip preacher" concept always reminded me of Pastor John Rydgren.
In 'Going Thy Way', the main pool-playing kid is Stanley Clements, just like in the original. Because he was in the Bowery Boys towards the end of their run, Torres throws in another Bowery Boy, Huntz Hall - he's the one in the cap.
The joke at the end is that one of the kids will grow up to be Minnesota Fats, Jackie Gleason's character from The Hustler.
In 'Going Thy Way', the main pool-playing kid is Stanley Clements, just like in the original. Because he was in the Bowery Boys towards the end of their run, Torres throws in another Bowery Boy, Huntz Hall - he's the one in the cap.
ReplyDeleteThe joke at the end is that one of the kids will grow up to be Minnesota Fats, Jackie Gleason's character from The Hustler.