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Overview
Based on his near-career-ending experience with the box-office disaster DARLING LILI, Blake Edwards fashioned a corrosive behind-the-scenes satire of the business in which he had long plied his trade.The film stars Richard Mulligan as Felix Farmer, a once-successful director whose career is on the slide because of the colossal failure of his $30 million G-rated musical. In desperation he hatches a plan to revive his career: Buy back the film and remake it, adding new pornographic footage to render it a more marketable box-office commodity. He believes that the key to the film's success will be the willingness of his ex-wife, Sally Miles (Julie Andrews), to dispense with her sweetly wholesome image and bare her breasts onscreen. To reach his goal, Farmer has to wade through a river of egomanical producers, wildly pretentious directors, knife-wielding industry gossips, sneaky editors, and even a dissipated doctor--or quack, as he prefers to be called. A broad, hugely entertaining attack on the hand that fed him, Edwards's film is among his best, with hilarious scenery chewing by William Holden (in his final film appearance), Loretta Swit, Larry Hagman, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Robert Vaughn, Robert Webber, Robert Loggia, and no other Roberts among its seeming cast of thousands.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Blake Edwards - Director
Julie Andrews
William Holden
Richard Mulligan
Larry Hagman
Marisa Berenson
Loretta Swit
Katherine MacMurray
Robert Loggia
Robert Preston
Craig Stevens
Details
- Format: DVD (Manufactured on Demand, Mono Sound)
- Run Time: 121
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 883316486085
- Genre: COMEDIES
- Rating: R (MPAA)
- Release Date: May 2012
Movie Reviews
Synopsis:
When an embittered playwright's musical turns out to be a financial disaster, he decides to recut the film with some new footage to turn it into a softcore porn flick.
Reviews:
"...Edwards' proven abilities with physical comedy are maximized..." - 06/24/1981 Variety
"...Edwards's newest, most manic, most bitter farce....The performances are wickedly right..." - 07/01/1981 New York Times, p.C21
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