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The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder (1 Viewer)

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Although it claims to be a "true story", it's rather 60's-panderingly stretching the facts a bit--Mary Dawson (no, she didn't have a funny name) did come from a repressive religious background, but it was a mainstream Quaker family, she had already been dancing on the burlesque circuit for years, and the events were somewhat different:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_They_Raided_Minsky%27s#Background
She wasn't a city-naive "repressed Amish girl" doing "Biblical dances", who sought "personal liberation", although that was the "socially satirical" stuff that sold movies back in 1968.

(Still, it's worth watching for Bert Lahr's last role, for those who've only seen him in one movie.)
 

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