A New Leaf (1971)

The Projectors

It’s the start of week 2 for January’s theme of “5 DIRECTORS” and we encountered this week’s director when we discussed “Ishtar” last April. An interesting story on film and behind the scenes. The director of that film would not direct another movie again. But before this, comedy writer, performer and producer Elaine May had three previous films under her belt so for week two we talk up the rest of Elaine May’s directorial filmography. Today we hit up a pretty delightful film debut written for the screen by her from a Jack Ritchie Story. Elaine May would find herself in the director’s chair and, though it wasn’t her intention, she also stars in it. We’re discussing an underrated comedy from 1971 called “A NEW LEAF” that also stars Walter Matthau, George Rose, Jack Weston and James Coco. Matthau is Henry Graham, a middle aged trust fund kid who just ran out of money and he has a scheme to pay his Uncle back some borrowed cash by finally settling down his closeted bachelor ways and marrying a well-to-do woman. Women disgust him in general but he finally meets Henrietta, an heiress botanist who doesn’t act very stereotypically wealthy. She’s quite strange and messy so he plans on killing this perfect woman for her money. Walter Matthau and George Rose are quite great in this. Fairly deep cut and quite out of print but we found an archive link to this one: https://archive.org/details/a-new-leaf-1971-br

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