"A New Leaf" - Hilarious Scenes

[MrMichaelvier]

one of the best movies ever

i love walter matthau and elaine may:-))))))

[silvernail6]

Watched this w/my dad years ago and we laughed our asses off. One scene not shown has Henry looking for available wealthy women. One rather busty one attempts to unleash her charms w/Henry screaming. What a Hoot!!!

[verbusen]

I wish someone would post the whole film, bits are not very funny compared to the whole film.

[verbusen]

You left out the funniest part!

"I'm poor"

[JazzKeyboardist1]

some of the people that do not like this movie, expecially the first half, are the heirs and lottery winners, who squandered their money, i know two people personally that should be worth over a million, and they blame their parents for allowing them to spend the trust fund,,lol

[dudev]

"Buy a Bentley and stop carrying on."

"How dare you!"

My favorite line.

[jwkeith]

Jack Richie's story is only 19 pages long but includes the murders. May's original Director's Cut was 180 minutes. Those sections of the Director Cut that survive in this 102 minute version are quite in keeping to the story. I suspect that we'll never see May's version, probably destroyed in the edit room. This is TOO BAD. Like the Venus de Milo we'll just have to content ourselves with what remains. Somewhere I'll bet the original screenplay exists though...

[Traceyneverin1]

Madam, I have seen many examples pf perversion in my time but your erotic obsession with your carpet.... !

Love it!

[MyriadeButterfly]

This movie is great. I saw it today for the first time and I love it.

[TheCatgirl6]

Oh. My. God. Funniest movie ever. Matthau has never been funnier--and that's really saying something. He is so hilariously snide and May--supremely talented writer-director and Mike Nichol's witty better half (professionally speaking)--is a wonder as the hapless, scattered but charming Henrietta. (Oh, and did I mention Jack Weston's riotous scene walking May up the aisle while desperately trying to talk her out of the marriage?) Priceless stuff. XD

[TheOtherMusicMan]

I REMEMBER THIS! This had to be about the funniest thing I ever saw in my laugh and I remember going home and telling my mom and dad to see it. I thought WM was the most dispicable guy in the whole world and he was so good in this role that I didn't even like him after that. Thanks for posting such a gem. The rest of you all who have not seen this great film, get a hold of a copy (amazon) and you'll love it. Promise

[hfelton]

I think the funniest scene, one of many, in this film is an early one in which Matthau's financial advisor, played brilliantly by William Redfield, repeatedly tries, without success, to explain to an uncomprehending Matthau that he is broke.

[gretschky]

my mother and i have loved this movie for years and years. Its always been our #1 favorite. Thanks for this combo of scenes. "M. Davids extra heavy malaga wine with soda and limejuice"

[sicilianbella35]

"No straws."

[theproknowsall]

i missed: " Find a suitable woman and murd ahhh marry her.

love that movie

[Shepherdess]

I can't get over it! The hilarity! "Henrietta, you see, you have your head through the ahm-hole." Best two minutes of comedy in the world --

[TulseLuper]

Could you post some of the scenes with William Redfield? He's my grandfather and I haven't seen this film in several years. He plays Beckett.

[Piratejenny25]

Hi If anyone here has this movie on VHS, and would be willing to make me a copy and send it to me, I would transfer the copy on to DVD and send them the movie on DVD, it would be a quid pro quo please contact me if your interested

[MsCatsclaw]

Elaine May in this flick was my first ever geek-girl crush, and Matthau's lines, and his delivery, are totally brilliant. Must. Own. This.

[garethwitte]

@Consummatus

The scene you're thinking of has Henry fantasizing about carrying a body bag by a rope over his shoulder through the house and gets to a corner where a butler is standing there watching him. Why would they edit that out? Black humor is at the core of this film.

[Piratejenny25]

Hi I was just wondering if its not to much trouble could you upload the whole movie

[SpeedingStudent]

I can't find this on DVD...only Chinese bootlegs.

Anyone care to help?

I love Matthau!!! Awesome actor!

[fnordguy]

Great lines in this movie...

Henry Graham: The only difference between us is I am a man and you are a woman and we don't have to let that interfere if we are reasonably careful.

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Henry Graham: If you can't be immortal, why bother?

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Henry Graham: I have no mind as far as I can tell.

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(from memory) A reference is a letter informing me that the applicant doesn't have the ingenuity to steal from me.

[Golemone]

thx for sharing this - "A New Leaf" is one of the best Matthau movies imo, for years I'm looking desperately for a DVD.

[44bett]

BEAUTIFUL-great movie with wonderful writing and acting. Ms. May is a very creative artist; gracias for sharing your video.

Ciao

[nailset6]

"Your Head through the arm hole" NOTHING is made today that is a smidgen as funny as this......

[RusselBertrand]

Did I say she was primitive...I retract that she is ferral! lol great line

[atlantarn]

Thank you for posting this! It is one of my favorite movies! linda

[137cake]

thank you so much. It's so funny. "The woman has to be vaccumed every time she eats!"

[ElizabethTalbot]

Very very funny and very very romantic.

The best ever retelling of The Beauty and the Beast.

[Julietjeske]

One of my all time favorites.

[nbelsky]

Yes, I'd LOVE to watch it again.

Especially the sequence when Henry fires her staff.

[MAGICALxXx]

please please please upload this movie im dying to see it!!!!xx

[vrf1675]

Please post the entire film!! been looking for it for years, thanks!

[johnson4and1]

I would SO appreciate it if you would upload this whole film. It is one of my favorite movies and I can't find it. Thank you!!!

[miriamkane]

i love this movie!!!! please please upload it!! I cant find it anywhere!!!

[rustybarrr]

I just bought it from Treasure Movies 12.98 shipping included. I hope it works.

[Omgitszztop]

Unseemly?.......UNSEEMLY??!! Harold,after her behavior tonight....anything I do will be seemly.

This movie has a "gold mine" of Walter Matthau funny one-liners.

When he chastised the little girl at the wedding....and when he fired Henrietta's staff is classic stuff.

[rufuswilson]

Just want chime in and say thanks. I saw this on television years ago and I never forgot it.

[nemo227]

Thanks for posting. This is one of those movies that one could watch many times. I saw it several times years ago and bought the original short story from a used book store. The movie people took the short story and made a real gem of a movie.

[Centaurmaiden]

One of the best comedies ever made. I haven't seen it in years and it's nearly impossible to find on vhs or dvd. Please post the entire movie.

[janejones11]

I LOVE this movie. Thanks for posting.

[851corsa]

post the whole film at once!

[garethwitte]

I want to, and I might

[kdetroit]

@851corsa It's on Flix all day today!

[bearcub410]

one of the best movies ever made . wish i could see the whole movie .thanks

[mjkaelbling]

Heavens! This movie is a gem. I'd love to see it all again.

[flalawyer2b]

"It only looks like it's not itching because you're not scratching!" Hilarious! Thanks for posting.

[georgiahoosier]

There are so many terrific quotes from this film you would have to show the whole thing to get them in. "New Leaf" is one of the greatest unrecognized comedies of all time.

"In a land where every man is what he owns, he who owns very little is nobody very much"

[garethwitte]

I completely agree

[TheCatgirl6]

@georgiahoosier Well said! Quite agree!

[137cake]

THANK YOU!

[garethwitte]

You're welcome!

[anilomd]

A funny, well-made movie. I saw it last back sometime in the 1980s on commercial TV.