BRUCE Dern, Rip Torn and David Carradine — three icons of Hollywood’s glorious 1970s — play codgers chasing (slowly) after Mariel Hemingway on 1905 Cape Cod in “The Golden Boys.”
The weathered sea captains decide they need a woman’s touch for their messy house, which, like everything else in this movie, looks like a museum. Hemingway, better preserved than any of them, plays a prospective bride they lure via — period touch! — a personal ad in a newspaper.
Directed at an arthritic pace by Daniel Adams, “The Golden Boys” also offers employment to Charles Durning, John Savage and the seldom-seen-on-screen Julie Harris. This musty yarn would have worked better as a 1940s MGM programmer.
Running time: 96 minutes. Not rated (nothing offensive). At the Quad, 13th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues.