S.O.B. (1981)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 121m
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Julie Andrews, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, William Holden
Synopsis:
Hollywood players get together to make a movie inauspiciously entitled Nightwind, in which the star must bare her breasts to the camera.
Review:
Hard to say how this vanity project (if you can call it that) got made, except that everyone involved clearly wanted to make it and appear to have had a good time doing so. While appearing to want to operate as a caustic Hollywood satire it has all the teeth of a 10, what with its casual nudity and fornication: together the films sum up Hollywood in the 70s better than any others, but do so within tired old comedic guidelines. There are some classic Edwards hallmarks - running jokes involving a corpse and a dog on a beach, and a hole in the ceiling - and elaborate physical gags of a violently destructive kind. Rather than generating laughs it is most often either tasteless or over the top.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 121m
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Julie Andrews, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, William Holden
Synopsis:
Hollywood players get together to make a movie inauspiciously entitled Nightwind, in which the star must bare her breasts to the camera.
Review:
Hard to say how this vanity project (if you can call it that) got made, except that everyone involved clearly wanted to make it and appear to have had a good time doing so. While appearing to want to operate as a caustic Hollywood satire it has all the teeth of a 10, what with its casual nudity and fornication: together the films sum up Hollywood in the 70s better than any others, but do so within tired old comedic guidelines. There are some classic Edwards hallmarks - running jokes involving a corpse and a dog on a beach, and a hole in the ceiling - and elaborate physical gags of a violently destructive kind. Rather than generating laughs it is most often either tasteless or over the top.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 121m
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Julie Andrews, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, William Holden
Synopsis:
Hollywood players get together to make a movie inauspiciously entitled Nightwind, in which the star must bare her breasts to the camera.
Review:
Hard to say how this vanity project (if you can call it that) got made, except that everyone involved clearly wanted to make it and appear to have had a good time doing so. While appearing to want to operate as a caustic Hollywood satire it has all the teeth of a 10, what with its casual nudity and fornication: together the films sum up Hollywood in the 70s better than any others, but do so within tired old comedic guidelines. There are some classic Edwards hallmarks - running jokes involving a corpse and a dog on a beach, and a hole in the ceiling - and elaborate physical gags of a violently destructive kind. Rather than generating laughs it is most often either tasteless or over the top.