The Love God? (1969)

Abner Audubon Peacock (Don Knotts) is the publisher of a bird-watcher's magazine which is converted into a girlie mag by an unscrupulous operator Osborn Tremaine (Edmond O'Brien).

Director:

Nat Hiken

Writer:

Nat Hiken

Stars:

Don Knotts, Anne Francis, Edmond O'Brien

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Don Knotts	...	Abner Audubon Peacock IV
Anne Francis	...	Lisa LaMonica
Edmond O'Brien	...	Osborn Tremaine (end credits: Osborn Tremain)
James Gregory	...	Darrell Evans Hughes
Maureen Arthur	...	Evelyn Tremaine (end credits: Eleanor Tremain)
Maggie Mancuso	...	Rose Ellen Wilkerson (as Maggie Peterson)
Jesslyn Fax	...	Miss Love
Jacques Aubuchon	...	Carter Fenton
Marjorie Bennett	...	Miss Pickering
Jim Boles	...	Amos Peacock
Ruth McDevitt	...	Miss Keezy
Roy Stuart	...	Joe Merkel
Herb Voland	...	Atty. Gen. Frederick Snow
James Westerfield	...	Rev. Wilkerson
Bob Hastings	...	Shrader

Storyline

Abner Audubon Peacock (Don Knotts) is the publisher of a bird-watcher's magazine which is converted into a girlie mag by an unscrupulous operator Osborn Tremaine (Edmond O'Brien).

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Plot Keywords:

love | sex | playboy | mod | magazine publisher | 

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Taglines:

So many women... Not enough man.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sex-related material

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

August 1969 (USA)

Also Known As:

Sexualprotz wider Willen

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Lisa LaMonica: The public wants sex, sex and more sex!

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Connections

Referenced in My Three Sons: The Love God (1971)

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Soundtracks

"Mr. Peacock"
Written by Walter Slivinski and Nat Hiken
Sung by The Blossoms (featuring Darlene Love)

User Reviews

Ornithological Pornography

The Love God? finds Edmond O'Brien down, but not out as the publisher of a smut magazine where he features his wife Maureen Arthur in many issues. After yet another conviction for selling the pornography, O'Brien gets his fourth class mail permit lifted by the Postmaster General. What to do?

Inspiration hits him as he drives through the small town of Peacock Falls where one of the descendent's of the town founder, Don Knotts publishes a magazine for ornithologists that's about to go under. To get that permit, O'Brien agrees to bail Knotts out of debt and even sends him on a trip deep in the Amazon jungle to get a photograph of a rare tropical bird so he can make the necessary editorial changes.

A whole lot of good players get involved in this film in which choirmaster and scout leader Don Knotts from his small town is transformed into a Hugh Hefner clone by makeover genius Anne Francis. James Gregory has a marvelous part as a blustering civil liberties attorney, a man who looks like he's traveled the slippery slope often. B.S. Pully is also good as the gangster backer of O'Brien who hams it up outrageously. Of the whole cast Edmond O'Brien looked like he was really enjoying himself.

Poor Knotts plays his usual befuddled lugnut of a human being who can't quite grasp all that's swirling around him. Certainly he never thought of himself as The Love God?

I wasn't expecting all that much and I was pleasantly surprised that The Love God? turned out better than I thought. Catch it sometime, even if you're not a Don Knotts fan.