TCM has been showing a
documentary series on film lately called: The
Story of Film: An Odyssey, and in tonight’s entry we’re treated to clips
and synopses from numerous movies, one of which is a Spanish film I’ve never
seen called: The Wheelchair (1960).
Well, apparently the plot is that some old guy whose legs work fine wants a
motorized wheelchair anyway because all of his friends have one, but he doesn’t get
one, so he gets frustrated and ends up poisoning his family. And so the obvious
moral of the story is that anyone who wants a motorized wheelchair had better
be given one, whether they need it or not, or else everyone will be killed
horribly. And this would make a great advertising threat for a motorized
wheelchair company like Hoveround: buy one of our products, or you’ll be sorry… (Hey, maybe they secretly
financed this movie? They should remake it now: think of all the advertising
tie-ins they could get!)
