Episode 760: Who's Minding the Mint? (1967)

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Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Buonopalooza wraps up with Howard Morris’s caper comedy Who’s Minding the Mint? (1967). Jim Hutton stars as Harry Lucas, a hapless Treasury worker who accidentally swipes $50,000 and scrambles to replace it before he’s caught. To pull off the fix, he enlists a motley crew of oddballs, including Dorothy Provine’s Verna Baxter, who’s more interested in perfecting her brownies than in breaking and entering. The ensemble bursts with familiar faces—Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Walter Brennan, Jack Gilford, and of course, Victor Buono.

Mike White, Otto Bruno, and Tim Madigan close out the Buono-palooza celebration with this breezy, big-cast caper.

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0:00.0	The Projection Booth podcast is sponsored by Scarecrow video.
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0:20.2	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:23.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:26.4	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:32.8	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:35.6	Shut it off.
0:41.0	Okay. tent podcasting isn't boring. Turn it off. Turn it off.
0:57.0	Put it off. But it strongholds. Millions are made here, and not a single dollar has ever been lost.
1:03.0	Until one day, this bright young man makes an innocent mistake that erupts into unbelievable consequences.
1:18.4	$50,000.
1:21.1	$50,000?
1:25.0	Turn yourself in, boy, before someone asks,
1:26.9	who's minding the mint.
1:31.9	We're going through the sewer at night, start up the presses, run off the 50,000... Impossible! The plates are locked in the vault.
1:35.4	So we get one more partner.
1:38.7	Somebody who can open safes.
1:41.5	A safecracker? Ridiculous. Where do you find a safe cracker?
1:46.0	To open a safe, I gotta hear the clicks.
1:50.0	I need a hearing aid.
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