Just You and Me, Kid (1979)

Director:

Leonard Stern

Writers:

Oliver Hailey (writer)
Tom Lazarus (writer)

Release Date:

13 July 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

The story of two juvenile delinquents.

Plot:

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.

Plot Keywords:

Runaway | Vaudevillian | Drug Dealer | Nude Girl | Reality

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

George Burns	...	Bill
Brooke Shields	...	Kate
Burl Ives	...	Max
Ray Bolger	...	Tom
Lorraine Gary	...	Shirl
Christopher Knight	...	Roy
Carl Ballantine	...	Reinhoff the Remarkable
Keye Luke	...	Doctor Device
Robert Doran	...	Box Boy
William Russ	...	Demesta
John Schuck	...	Stan
Leon Ames	...	Manduke the Magnificent
Andrea Howard	...	Sue
Nicolas Coster	...	Harris
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Levin Bailey	...	Student
Peter Brandon	...	Woodrow
Julie Cobb	...	Dr. Nancy Faulkner
Jacque Lynn Colton	...	Edna
Patrick Cronin	...	Doctor
Ben Frank	...	First Policeman
Tom Leopold	...	Policeman (as Thomas Leopold)
Robert Phalen	...	Foster Father
Roger Price	...	Mailman
Arthur Rosenberg	...	Pharmacist
Kate Stern	...	Student

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Like his character Bill, George Burns is also an ex-vaudevillian who performed with his wife (Gracie Allen) who is now deceased.

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: In the scene where Bill first goes to visit the Max to tell him about Kate, you can see the boom mic come into the shot for a few seconds

Quotes:

Doctor Device: [after hiding Kate on the ceiling with a levitation trick] Now, we'll let you down, if you promise never to tell how we do this.
Kate: OK. But, how do you do it?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Oscar's Greatest Moments (1992) (V)

Light and entertaining. Would stand up to repeats if we only had the DVD.

I've never understood why this movie has not made it to VHS or DVD. Would it be contractual problems, maybe? Carl Ballentine, Key Luke, Burl Ives..never mind the obvious; that all of George Burns needs to be available. Nothing deep, just light and entertaining. Brooke Shields was good, and so was everyone else. I'd like to have Bill's alarm clock too. The car and the pylons, the breaking pencils, the grocery store carry-out boy, and George Burns typical, poised response are the little things that add up to make us keep chuckling. Too many movies aim for "zany" or "wacky" or "hilarious" and fall flat. Sometimes chuckling is all we need. Bring on the DVD.