Since we've been talking here about the movie Who's Minding the Mint?, Joe Dante was nice enough to write and suggest I might link to its trailer as narrated by Larry Karaszewski for the "Trailers From Hell" series. For some reason, the caption on its YouTube page is partially for a write-up for the film White Zombie, which somehow adds to the charm of this project.
Two clarifications on what Larry has to say: Contrary to what is said often on the Internet, Woody Allen was never a writer for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. Mr. Allen's contribution to Mr. Caesar's body of work seems to have been limited to two somewhat obscure specials late in the time of Sid's TV stardom.
Secondly, Who's Minding the Mint? does not present any insight to how money is printed or ever was printed in the real world. It presents the way a buncha guys in Hollywood, with no knowledge of or access to accurate info — or probably the budget to replicate the real thing — thought it might have been done. Goldfinger did not show us what it really looked like inside Fort Knox either. But I'm pleased Larry liked this movie as much as I did. He and Mr. Dante have been involved with a number of my favorite films…