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Directed by Paul Bartel...
Screenplay by Paul Bartel and Richard Blackburn...
With his bow tie, manicured beard, debaucher's lips and a forehead that recedes in disapproving furrows almost to the collar line, Paul Bartel looks like the last surviving member of the Preston Sturges Repertory Company. Sturges, whose spitball farces (The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) sped moviegoers giddily through World War II, might appreciate Bartel's continuance of that tradition, as actor and writerdirector, in high-camp style. His first feature, Private Parts (1973), was a Psycho drama about a winsome lad who makes love to a lifesize, water-filled, clear plastic doll...
...specialized breeding aimed at conforming to the exacting-and too often substantially different-standards of the show ring. Cocker spaniels, for example, were once superior bird dogs; years of overbreeding have resulted in spaniels that cannot tell a pigeon from a pothole. Says American Kennel Club Field Representative Bob Bartel...
Directed by PAUL BARTEL...