Veterans John McCallum and Roger Hammond are extremely likeable as two bumbling old duffers, while Googie Withers, 72 years after her first stage appearance, is simply a legend.
The two architectural genres appear antithetical aesthetically, and conceptually seem to come from opposite extremes: the modernist ideal of form following function versus the over-the-top commercialism of Googie confections.
An important new exhibition at the Getty explores Googie architecture and the car culture that drove it, together with the high modernism pursued in LA by architects such as Pierre Koenig and Richard Neutra.