Take A Good Look (1960)

★★★ · 3 girls and one balloon · Spuzz · 2013-11-21

Frank Albertson, who looks so damn familiar, as I've seen him before in some of these films, plays a manager of a used car lot who was hired to make changes. The manager of the entire lot okays everything the Used Car manager wants to do, pretty much remodel the entire place, including a new road sign! And whatdayaknow, the whole thing convinces people to come in! Pretty broad in it's approach to what makes sales work (eg an unlimited budget!) so that somewhat hampers the believability of this.

★★ · Familiar Faces · Yowp · 2020-09-13

Arthur Franz stars in this short film as a used car manager who spends most of his time kissing up to a sales manual as he does the "boss" (Frank Albertson, coming off a character role in 'Psycho'). Everyone here looks like a supporting actor from a Perry Mason episode. The opening music has such an egregious edit, I don't know why Fairbanks let it slide. At least one Jack Cookerly cue from the Capitol Hi-Q library slips in, and we get a good helping of "In My Merry Oldsmobile." The short starts with a botched sale to a "shopper" (Paul Bryar) who, as the plot would have it, ended up buying a…