A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 4 nominations total
- Michael James
- (as Peter O'toole)
- Anna Fassbender
- (as Edra Gale)
- Mrs. Werner
- (as Eleonor Hirt)
- Marcel
- (as Jean Paredes)
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- TriviaRichard Burton: Uncredited, as man in a strip club. Burton appears with Peter O'Toole in a scene in a bar where Burton asks O'Toole, "Don't you know me from someplace?" O'Toole responds: "Give my regards to what's her name." The dialogue is a reference to their appearance together in Becket (1964), and to Burton's wife at the time, Elizabeth Taylor.
- GoofsWhen the anarchist's bomb explodes, Carole does not react to it, although everybody else does.
- Quotes
Michael James: Did you find a job?
Victor Skakapopulis: Yeah, I got something at the striptease. I help the girls dress and undress.
Michael James: Nice job.
Victor Skakapopulis: Twenty francs a week.
Michael James: Not very much.
Victor Skakapopulis: It's all I can afford.
- Crazy creditsThe opening/closing titles feature a host of Cupid cherubs in cat masks performing various gags.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Die Unverbesserlichen: Nichts dazugelernt (1966)
There is a bevy of beautiful women here. Paula Prentiss gets the most obviously outrageous role: a suicidal poetry-with-a-social-conscience writer who's also a performer at the Crazy Horse Saloon. The exquisite Capucine shows off her remarkable flair for physical comedy. Ursula Andress doesn't have to do anything other than show up in a bikini, but even she turns out to be a delightful comedienne. Romy Schneider doesn't fare as well. She looks amazing, but her character is cloying. She does shine, however, in the hilarious English-as- a-second-language class sequence.
There are some other gems: The nighttime courting below the window, the group therapy sessions, the library bully. The film comes to life at the end when it turns into pure slapstick. It contrives to assemble all the characters in a French château, with everyone chasing after each other in some cleverly devised sight gags. Just don't look for consistency, coherence, or continuity in this film. They don't exist. Enjoy it, instead, as a series of comic set-pieces.
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- Jul 1, 2005
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- Also known as
- Was gibt's Neues, Pussy?
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- Gross US & Canada
- $18,820,000
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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