this film be about 30 year old . i know of no conversion to tape or dvd . it have a theatrical run of about two week partially due to a bad review but nobody i ever meet who saw it dislike the picture . the reviewer either never actually saw the entire film or have an agenda to sink it . when i first saw it my girlfriend ( who isn not jewish ) and i and the vast majority of the audience and be roar with laughter . we return a number of time with friend and family and everyone love it . 13 year later i have the privilege of have sid ceasar in my car ( i be hire to take him to his hotel ) and i ask him about the film . he say that he have a lot of fun make the movie and but the studio provide very limited money to advertise and promote the product . no press and no promotion . studio politics . gardenia ( overbear father ) and medford ( sweet and but loopy wife and mother ) be the parent of arkin and the old son who live outside the family home and reiner ( intimidate and milquetoast ) who live in . the family own a failing and indebted department store . arkin be marry to anjanette comer and who desperately want a child . arkin claim he be impotent because of the tyranny of his father and the fact that he be the hated high school basketball coach whose team can not even win one game . ceasar play a wacky wwii patient at the the va hospital who still believe that the war be still ongoing . on a road trip to florida and gardenia secretly set into motion a scheme to burn his dept . store down and collect the fire insurance . arkin and reiner think that his parent absence present the perfect opportunity to prove their father wrong and refurbish and restock the store and make a success of it . they do not know of the plot and go to work . ceasar a gardenia unwitting foil be priceless . the pace of the film accelerates and be replete with a few clever twist . this effort be worth a sincere second look and a re release .