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Director:
Jack Haley Jr.
Writers:
Jacqueline Susann (novel)
Samuel A. Taylor (screenplay)
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Release Date:
27 August 1971 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
The Love Machine now on the Screen ! more
Plot:
An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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John Phillip Law ... Robin Stone

Dyan Cannon ... Judith Austin

Robert Ryan ... Gregory 'Greg' Austin
Jackie Cooper ... Danton Miller
David Hemmings ... Jerry Nelson
Jodi Wexler ... Amanda
William Roerick ... Cliff Dorne
Maureen Arthur ... Ethel Evans
Shecky Greene ... Christie Lane
Clinton Greyn ... Alfie Knight

Sharon Farrell ... Maggie Stewart
Alexandra Hay ... Tina St. Claire

Eve Bruce ... Amazon Woman

Greg Mullavey ... Bob Summers
Gene Baylos ... Eddie Flynn
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
108 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:X | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA more
Company:
Sujac Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Moves Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIEŽ MOVIE GUIDE. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: 'Manos' the Hands of Fate (#5.24)" (1993) more
Soundtrack:
Amandas Theme more

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Am I missing something here?, 24 September 2003
Author: gorgeousgreekbeauty from Toronto, CANADA

I just got this gem off of ebay and was quite disappointed .. for three factors ..

1. No nude John Phillip Law .. I've seen stills from the movie which detail his beautiful naked ass, in bed with two women, but these scenes are absent from the movie 2. The supposed "several steamy" sex scenes .. tame by today's standards, but again, I didn't see anything either than sheets moving around and some nipples .. where did they hide it all? This movie was marketed as being the steamiest movie since Midnight Cowboy and there are no naked people running around .. :-( .. is there another version to this movie that's maybe NC 17? Does Europe have the advantage of the better uncut version than we paranoid Puritan North Americans? WHERE IS THE NAKED JOHN PHILLIP LAW? .. like Danger Diabolik, people overestimate his nakedness in a movie .. he might have been jaybird, you don't get to see it .. :-( :-( :-( 3. Plot .. okay, stretching here .. but John's acting wasn't that bad .. given the script and his deplorably bad supporting cast .. he was cute all the way thru it .. better than his portrayal of a bird man in Barbarella .. just stand there and breathe John, you've just found your acting worth .. now show us that magnificent chest of yours .. hmm hmmm ..

Dyan Cannon can't act her way out of a brown paper bag .. worse .. !!!she looks like she's been dolled up on Halcion in every scene she's in .. the only character worth rooting for was the amazon whore who was slapped around by Law's character .. she seemed to have a lot of depth .. for her 2 minute scene .. I felt sorry for her ..

The scenery and set design was typically bad 70's porn movie castoffs ... and what's with the dinner suit that the network exec keeps wearing? Is he expecting it to get better than this? 'fraid not!

Shecky Green in ill fitting mismatched clothing made me sick to my stomach.. when he moved I thought the room was spinning ..

Overall, I'd give this movie /5 out of ten .. just cuz it was soooo bad, you just had to follow it to the miserable conclusion to see how it ends..

Thank god no director worth his spit would dredge up slop like this and try to find a modern audience for it ..

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