![]() ![]() They steal his body from the funeral home, substituting the corpse of Burgess Webster (Herb Tanney), a once popular, but largely forgotten character actor who died on the beach near the Farmer home in the first scene of the film. Irving Finegarten ( Robert Preston), Felix and Sally's physician the trio plans to save their friend from the lavish but hypocritical Hollywood funeral and give Felix a proper sendoff. Hysterical, Felix points the water pistol at police the police shoot and kill Felix, believing the toy gun to be real.įelix's tragic death creates a crisis for his cronies Tim Culley (William Holden), the director of Night Wind Ben Coogan ( Robert Webber), Sally's press agent and Dr. Armed with his son's water pistol, Felix takes the lab's manager ( Hamilton Camp) hostage. An angry and deranged Felix tries to steal the film negatives from the studio's color lab vault. Using California's community property laws, they persuade Sally to sign a distribution deal that also gives the studio the right to edit the film. If he fails, both Sally and he will be impoverished, at least by Hollywood standards.Īt first, the studio executives are keen to unload the film onto Felix and recoup their investment, but when Sally goes through with the topless scene and the film seems a likely success, they plot to regain control. He liquidates most of his financial holdings to buy the existing footage and to finance further production. He persuades the studio to sell him the rights to the film and then tries to convince his wife Sally Miles (Julie Andrews), an Oscar-winning movie star with a squeaky-clean image, to appear in the revised film - a softcore pornographic musical in which she must appear topless. The experience gives him the sudden realization that the reason for his film's failure was its lack of sex.įelix resolves to save both the film and his reputation. Finally, he tries to shoot himself with a police officer's gun, but is prevented from doing so by the ministrations of a young woman wearing only a pair of panties. The occupation leads to a party, which degenerates into an orgy. Felix spends roughly the first quarter of the film in a catatonic state or heavily sedated, while his friends and hangers-on occupy his Malibu beach house. Subsequently, he tries to gas himself in his kitchen oven, but is prevented from carrying out his intent by two party guests with other things on their mind. He then attempts to hang himself from a rafter in an upstairs bedroom, only to fall and crash through the floor, injuring a venomous Hollywood gossip columnist (Loretta Swit) standing in the room below. ![]() Felix attempts suicide four times: He attempts to die of carbon monoxide poisoning in his car, only to have it accidentally slip into gear and crash through the side of his garage, down a sand dune and into the Pacific Ocean. ![]() The main character, Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan), is a phenomenally successful film producer who has just made the first major flop of his career, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars to his movie studio and his own sanity. The story is a satire of the film industry and Hollywood society. The film was produced by Lorimar and was released by Paramount Pictures on July 1, 1981. It stars Julie Andrews, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Larry Hagman, Robert Vaughn, Robert Webber, Loretta Swit, Shelley Winters, and William Holden in his final film role. is a 1981 American satirical black comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards. ![]()
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