Thursday, December 2, 2021

THE POST-GRADUATE

THE GRADUATE (1967)
dir: Mike Nichols

THE POST-GRADUATE
MAD #122, October 1968
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker

From MAD Mini-Movies

Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) has just finished college and moved back to Los Angeles, and his parents have a party for him. Afterwards he drives the wife of his father's partner, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) home and begins an affair with her. After a while he thinks they should talk and she wants none of it. With the encouragement of Mr. Robinson and the Braddocks, Benjamin starts dating the Robinsons' daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross), which Mrs. Robinson forbids. Elaine goes back to school and Berkeley and Ben follows Elaine up there. After getting a room and settling up there, he comes home one day to find Mr. Robinson (Murray Hamilton) there saying he knows about the affair and Ben's broken up the family, and he too is going to make sure Ben never sees Elaine again. Elaine is about to be married and Ben finds out where the wedding is, stops it, and locks everyone else in the church with a cross as he runs away with her.
   -The guy saying "Plastics" in the first panel refers to a guy who pulls Ben aside at his graduation party and says that one word is the future.
   -I never understood the whole thing about his wearing full scuba gear in a swimming pool for the benefit of his family and friends.
   -He doesn't confess his affair to Elaine, she has said that he was a rapist and she was the victim.


They leave out that this movie has a part with Norman Fell.

SICK VISITS A HOLLYWOOD STAR...
Sick #68, June 1968
w: Bill Majeski

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