THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES (1969) ** Back in the day this was just the sort of thing to set off learned debate amongst the junior high school intelligentsia. What are the limits of knowledge to be contained in a computer? What if it could be transferred into a human brain? Why is gambling legal at the track but not in the back room of the pizza joint? Is there some law that you have to have big sideburns if you want to wear a fringe jacket, or is it a mere fashion imperative? There was more plot to our discussions than there is to the film, though Kurt Russell looks semi-McEnroesque as the toast of New York. Cesar Romero's pretty funny as the red gangster, too, though neither of them have half the appeal or charisma as the magnificent Mustang. Works slightly better as a time capsule than as a drama, which leads to the admonition never to underestimate the staying power of society's worst concepts; university challenge, for example (done to near perfection years later on "The Young Ones").
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