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What's New Pussycat

  • 19651965
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 48m
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6.1/10
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What's New Pussycat (1965)
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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.
IMDb RATING
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  • Director
    • Clive Donner
  • Writer
    • Woody Allen(original screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Peter Sellers
    • Peter O'Toole
    • Romy Schneider
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  • Director
    • Clive Donner
  • Writer
    • Woody Allen(original screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Peter Sellers
    • Peter O'Toole
    • Romy Schneider
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    • 80User reviews
    • 42Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 4 nominations total

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    What's New Pussycat
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    What's New Pussycat

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    Ursula Andress and Peter O'Toole in What's New Pussycat (1965)
    Woody Allen in What's New Pussycat (1965)
    Peter Sellers in What's New Pussycat (1965)
    Peter Sellers in What's New Pussycat (1965)
    Peter O'Toole and Peter Sellers in What's New Pussycat (1965)
    Capucine in What's New Pussycat (1965)
    Peter Sellers and Capucine in What's New Pussycat (1965)
    Paula Prentiss in What's New Pussycat (1965)
    What's New Pussycat (1965)
    What's New Pussycat (1965)
    Woody Allen, Ursula Andress, Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers, Capucine, Romy Schneider, and Paula Prentiss in What's New Pussycat (1965)
    Ursula Andress and Peter Sellers in What's New Pussycat (1965)

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    Peter Sellers
    Peter Sellers
    • Dr. Fritz Fassbenderas Dr. Fritz Fassbender
    Peter O'Toole
    Peter O'Toole
    • Michael Jamesas Michael James
    Romy Schneider
    Romy Schneider
    • Carole Werneras Carole Werner
    Capucine
    Capucine
    • Renée Lefevreas Renée Lefevre
    Paula Prentiss
    Paula Prentiss
    • Liz Bienas Liz Bien
    Woody Allen
    Woody Allen
    • Victor Shakapopulisas Victor Shakapopulis
    Ursula Andress
    Ursula Andress
    • Ritaas Rita
    Eddra Gale
    Eddra Gale
    • Anna Fassbenderas Anna Fassbender
    • (as Edra Gale)
    Katrin Schaake
    Katrin Schaake
    • Jacquelineas Jacqueline
    Eléonore Hirt
    Eléonore Hirt
    • Mrs. Werneras Mrs. Werner
    • (as Eleonor Hirt)
    Jean Parédès
    • Marcelas Marcel
    • (as Jean Paredes)
    Jacques Balutin
    • Etienneas Etienne
    Jess Hahn
    Jess Hahn
    • Mr. Werneras Mr. Werner
    Howard Vernon
    Howard Vernon
    • Doctoras Doctor
    Michel Subor
    Michel Subor
    • Philippeas Philippe
    Sabine Sun
    Sabine Sun
    • Nurseas Nurse
    Nicole Karen
    • Tempestas Tempest
    Jacqueline Fogt
    • Charlotteas Charlotte
    • Director
      • Clive Donner
    • Writer
      • Woody Allen(original screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Richard 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. Screenwriter Woody Allen later said of the Burton cameo, "It was so cute, you want to vomit".
    • Goofs
      When 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 credits
      The opening and closing credits feature a host of Cupid cherubs in cat masks performing various gags.
    • Connections
      Featured in Die Unverbesserlichen: Nichts dazugelernt (1966)
    • Soundtracks
      What's New Pussycat
      (1965)

      Music by Burt Bacharach (uncredited)

      Lyrics by Hal David (uncredited)

      Sung by Tom Jones

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    Top review
    4/10
    Woody Sex Farce Winds Up Flaccid
    Watching Peter Sellers playing a lust-crazed German shrink amid gorgeous women, Swinging-Sixties ambiance, and a sparkling Burt Bacharach score should make for a fast-flowing breeze. But herky-jerky direction and a surprisingly amateurish script by first-time filmwriter and actor Woody Allen render "What's New Pussycat" hard to take.

    Billed a sex farce when it came out in 1965, and rather ahead of its time in that regard, the film presents us with the singular torment of Michael James (Peter O'Toole), a prisoner of his killer charisma who wants to be faithful to lover Carole (Romy Schneider) but can't say no to the many felines who purr for his attention. His analyst Dr. Fassbender (Sellers) and friend Victor (Allen) watch in jealous rage.

    Sellers was just coming off a near-fatal heart attack, and maybe trying too hard to show he still had game. As Fassbender he leaps, shrieks, rolls on the carpet, yet still seems half the man he was in films like "Waltz Of The Toreadors" and "The Millionairess". He's amusing but underrealized with lines that stretch for laughs he doesn't always get. "You're a monster, and a monster in that order," he bellows at his heavy-set wife. Huh?

    O'Toole was a sensation at this time from more serious roles; seeing him cut up like this, slamming his skull against doors and slipping off stairs, was a revelation and a marker for later comic turns in better films. Here, he struggles with a role conceived for Warren Beatty, looking almost constipated as one lovely after another drapes herself over him. "Women have always overcome my basic shyness," he explains.

    Allen was the new guy here, and for that you almost want to cut him some slack. He could have done worse for a first script, like say "Stardust Memories" or "Hollywood Ending". But watching Woody trying to be funny can be almost as painful as watching him try to be serious. "This can't work," he has one early conquest tell Michael. "I'm 34 and you're 12."

    A more central problem than the three mentioned above were two others behind the camera. Director Clive Donner kills some of the funnier bits with lame blocking (an opening featuring Fassbinder and his wife arguing in a series of dizzying zoom shots sets the chaotic tone) and allows O'Toole to be lit so green at times he appears malarial.

    Producer Charles K. Feldman seemed more interested in creating "happenings" than films, throwing together talents at random and letting whatever they came up with dictate the final product. In one scene we watch a badly overacting Allen try to kill O'Toole in a sauna, yet the next scene has O'Toole alive and dry in an unrelated group-psychoanalysis scene. I can't write about the ending, not because it would be a spoiler, but because I have no idea what it was about. Neither will you.

    There's a handful of witty lines in "Pussycat", sometimes even two in a row. That Bacharach/Hal David music is tremendous listening. Tom Jones scored the hit title song, but the songs "Here I Am" (Dionne Warwick) and "My Little Red Book" (Manfred Mann) are even better, the latter especially when danced to by the gorgeous Paula Prentiss.

    Prentiss is the most beautiful woman I've seen in movies - until she opens her mouth. You could say that "Pussycat" suffers from a similar issue, pretty from a distance, annoying close-up. It has so much sex appeal, it's almost angering how casually it disappoints.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • June 22, 1965 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • France
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Was gibt's Neues, Pussy?
    • Filming locations
      • Villa Castel Henriette, Rue des Binelles, Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, France
    • Production companies
      • Famous Artists Productions
      • Famartists Productions S.A.
      • United Artists
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $18,820,000
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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