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An adolescent girl realizes a carnival exhibitionist isn't selling lies, but rather, hope.An adolescent girl realizes a carnival exhibitionist isn't selling lies, but rather, hope.An adolescent girl realizes a carnival exhibitionist isn't selling lies, but rather, hope.
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Director Mark Griffiths (who would years later direct the comedy "Hard Bodies") directed "Perpetual Motion Machine" with a fun 1930's vibe.
When you view this film, it hasn't got that student film vibe about it at all. This picture was directed with a very mature eye that understood the look and feel of classic movie comedies. A great deal of historical research was done on Perpetual Motion Machine. I only viewed Perpetual Motion Machine one time and that was when Mark Griffiths and his Co-Produced David Lee Fein ran the rushs of the first cut at Melnitz Hall in UCLA for the cast and crew.
In Perpetual Motion Machine I was cast in the role of "Delbert" The film was shot in the town of Julian California, and there is a lot of the old part of Julian that you will see in this film, such as the Soda Fountain, and main street. There were about one hundred extras in Perpetual Motion Machine. One of the Actors that plays a bad guy (he is in a card game scene) was Bill Bordy, the editor of a fairly new theatrical casting news paper for Actors in L.A. called "The Drama-Logue" Mr. Bordy was telling all the Actors: "You should read that new casting news sheet, it's called The Drama-Logue and it's only 25 cents!" Although Mark Griffiths put a great deal of time and money into this film, it never seemed to pop up in the days of VHS cassettes. "Perpetual Motion Machine" is a sweet family style film. The last time that I spoke with Mark Griffiths was in 1984 when he got me an appointment with his casting Director Geno Havens to read for a role in I think it must have been "Hardbodies" or what ever film was right before Hardbodies.
Many decades later I became "Doctor Scuba" in the You Tube web series titled: "F---ed in Space" on the You Tube channel of Harmony Joyride.
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By what name was Perpetual Motion Machine (1973) officially released in India in English?
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