Just Imagine (1930)

Actors: Scott Seaton (actor), Joseph W. Girard (actor), Ivan Linow (actor), George Irving (actor), Ivan Linow (actor), Wilfred Lucas (actor), J.M. Kerrigan (actor), El Brendel (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Frank Albertson (actor), Sidney De Gray (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Hobart Bosworth (actor), Mary Carr (actress), Kenneth Thomson (actor),

Plot: New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.

Keywords: 1880s, 1930s, 1980s, airplane, baby, baby-delivery, back-from-the-dead, courtship, doctor, dog
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: YOUTH AND LOVE 50 YEARS FROM NOW! (original print ad - all caps) Come today...soar on wings of fancy to the magic days of tomorrow's existence...see life, love in 1980---find out what your grandchildren are going to do!

Quotes:

Single O: Boys, I vouldn't know de old town! Vere is all de automobiles?::RT-42: [pointing skyward] Oh, they're in the upper level.::J-21: Hardly anyone drives a car now. They all use planes.::Single O: Is dat so?::RT-42: Yeah, I drive a Rosenblatt. J flies a Pinkus for his personal use, but all the airliners are Goldfarbs.::Single O: Goldfarb! [laughs uproariously] It looks like someone got even with Henry Ford!

Single O: [upon meeting Looloo, then Loko] She's not the queen - *he* is!

Census Taker: Don't criticize this marriage law. It, like the Volstead Act, is a noble experiment!