I tried to be lenient when watching this but it really was a hot mess. Bette was about 62 when it was made, not quite the "elderly woman" mentioned in the TV listings. There were several plot holes and hammy acting to suffer through, making it a bit aggravating to watch. However, my goal in life is to see every movie BD appeared in. Bunny O'Hare is not an easy movie to come by. It's not available anywhere so the only way to catch it is the off-chance it's ran on TV.
The premise is that a widow named Bunny O'Hare has fallen behind on her mortgage, so the bank is repo'ing her home. Which is a standard enough plot design, but for reasons never explained, they start tearing the house down while she's still in it. I'm pretty sure, even back then, the bank would just keep the house and resell it. Why go to the trouble and expense of levelling it? And while this is going on, salvagers like Bill Green (Ernest Borgnine) are making off with the toilet and bathroom sink to "sell in Mexico".
She tried to reach her kids for help, but both calls end up with her kids asking her for money. I do not know who played her daughter Lulu but her son was played by John Astin and boy was he annoying. So Bill takes pity on Bunny and offers her a ride. When they go to get gas he tries to ditch her, but she's hard to shake. He drives a crappy old truck with a camper on the back. This camper is amazing...by the end of the movie it has become wide enough to hold two cots side-by-side with three feet of space between them! Oh, and the toilet and sink taken from Bunny's home are never seen or mentioned again. You think they'd be tripping over them, cracking their shins on them, etc. And at another point they also have Bill's motorcycle hidden back there. Ridiculous.
So she comes across a wanted poster Bill had tucked away from his days as a bank robber and she gets the wise idea to rob the bank that took her house, to get even with them. She asks him to teach her everything he knows. He protests a little, but of course eventually goes along with it. They notice a lot of hippies in the area, so they dress the part, which is how they are able to pull off so many heists. Everyone's looking for young mod kids in their 20s, not a couple of 60-somethings.
It was only supposed to be the one and done, but every time Bunny checks in with her kids they need more money. Her son is a gambler, and a lousy one at that, and her daughter is married to a butcher who has to have expensive therapy because he doesn't like meat. I know, I know, I rolled my eyes several times during this movie.
Jack Cassidy played the part of a bungling cop, Lt. Horace Greeley (yes, more eye rolling). Jack was quite the ham, not sure if it was satirical on purpose for the movie or if it's just the way he was. Either way, it was annoying. His antics would get him fired now, but back then it was okay to be sexist and give massages to his cute little cohort, J.D. Hart. He is about the dumbest cop ever, luckily she (played by Joan Delaney) is the brains of the outfit. If he would ever listen to her, they could have caught the bank robbers about half a dozen times...
The premise is that a widow named Bunny O'Hare has fallen behind on her mortgage, so the bank is repo'ing her home. Which is a standard enough plot design, but for reasons never explained, they start tearing the house down while she's still in it. I'm pretty sure, even back then, the bank would just keep the house and resell it. Why go to the trouble and expense of levelling it? And while this is going on, salvagers like Bill Green (Ernest Borgnine) are making off with the toilet and bathroom sink to "sell in Mexico".
She tried to reach her kids for help, but both calls end up with her kids asking her for money. I do not know who played her daughter Lulu but her son was played by John Astin and boy was he annoying. So Bill takes pity on Bunny and offers her a ride. When they go to get gas he tries to ditch her, but she's hard to shake. He drives a crappy old truck with a camper on the back. This camper is amazing...by the end of the movie it has become wide enough to hold two cots side-by-side with three feet of space between them! Oh, and the toilet and sink taken from Bunny's home are never seen or mentioned again. You think they'd be tripping over them, cracking their shins on them, etc. And at another point they also have Bill's motorcycle hidden back there. Ridiculous.
So she comes across a wanted poster Bill had tucked away from his days as a bank robber and she gets the wise idea to rob the bank that took her house, to get even with them. She asks him to teach her everything he knows. He protests a little, but of course eventually goes along with it. They notice a lot of hippies in the area, so they dress the part, which is how they are able to pull off so many heists. Everyone's looking for young mod kids in their 20s, not a couple of 60-somethings.
It was only supposed to be the one and done, but every time Bunny checks in with her kids they need more money. Her son is a gambler, and a lousy one at that, and her daughter is married to a butcher who has to have expensive therapy because he doesn't like meat. I know, I know, I rolled my eyes several times during this movie.
Jack Cassidy played the part of a bungling cop, Lt. Horace Greeley (yes, more eye rolling). Jack was quite the ham, not sure if it was satirical on purpose for the movie or if it's just the way he was. Either way, it was annoying. His antics would get him fired now, but back then it was okay to be sexist and give massages to his cute little cohort, J.D. Hart. He is about the dumbest cop ever, luckily she (played by Joan Delaney) is the brains of the outfit. If he would ever listen to her, they could have caught the bank robbers about half a dozen times...