High Time (1960)

Very best movie i ever watch

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

High Time is a wonderful Bing Crosby vehicle that has a successful middle aged businessman with grown children (and a widower) indulging a whim by taking a step back in his life to get the college education he missed the first time around.While a seeming slam dunk to be a "fish out of water" comedy, instead Crosby's character finds a way to integrate successfully with his younger classmates, learning from them as they also benefit from his experience.The movie records a lot of the college experience as you would have found it in the 50s or early 60s. It was a more innocent, more friendly time, with school spirit, dorms, frats, cramming, and the excitement of coming back together to start each new school year.This is a wonderful film that stands up well. Things such as fall bonfires were and still are common campus traditions. Fraternity pledging pranks ... still around. Dormitories ... still around. Hamburger/Barbecue restaurants ... still around. LOLIs the movie a touch simple and innocent compared to modern life and modern comedy fare? Sure it is. But trust me, that is NOT a bad thing.Sit back and enjoy this very entertaining and relaxing film.

I discovered this delightful film in the late 1980s when I saw it on TV and enjoyed it immensely. Bing Crosby gives a wonderful performance in this film and exudes a warmth much like that in "White Christmas" (1954) and Nicole Maurey does an excellent job as his French teacher/love interest. The duo of Tuesday Weld and Fabian add 1960 star power, and this is a great opportunity to see a young Gavin MacLeod and Yvonne Craig before they became even more famous as TV stars. Patrick Adiarte is also wonderful as Indian student T.J. Padmanabham. The story is well crafted and involving and of course family friendly, perhaps the most family friendly of Blake Edwards' work. The Henry Mancini soundtrack is IMHO one of his best and will stick with you for a long time. (It was available on CD but is currently out of print.) Of course any time you hear a Jimmy Van Heusen/Sammy Cahn song it's a treat, and "The Second Time Around" is one of their best.As far as highlights, the scene when the gang visits one of Harvey's own Smokehouses will have you both laughing and pining for a time when such restaurants existed. You could see the movie's end stunt coming a mile away, given Harvey's fondness for the key phrase involved, but it's still wonderful.However, being shot in 2.35:1 CinemaScope, the presentation does suffer from horrific pan and scan when shown on TV; I've no idea why, given the success of the virtual remake Back To School, this film hasn't been released on a widescreen DVD as it deserves; I suspect some type of conflict with the film or music rights that hopefully will be resolved soon.

This movie does two things to you after you have seen it. It make you feel good and makes you want to go college. Besides being a feel good movie, it also teaches us a lesson that it is never too late to go forward in life no matter what age you are as Bing Brosy did so well in this movie. A good cast and script, some good music and you have a winner of a movie. No violence and it does very well for itself. I wish they would make more movies like this now

Bing Crosby plays a millionaire in his sunset days who decides to get his college degree. It is very reminiscent of the 1982 Dangerfield vehicle, Back To School, only this one has entertaining songs in addition to light screwball comedy. This is a very good movie to relax to when you're in a mode to laugh, smile, and avoid anything challenging.