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What's New, Pussycat? - 1965

Quoi de neuf, Pussycat?

Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 108 minutes

Film Remarks:
Peter O'Toole plays a Don Juan who has women falling all over him. He gets plenty of sex out of it but is hounded by women wanting commitment. O'Toole tells all his problems to his therapist, Dr. Fassbinder, played by the brilliant Peter Sellers Of course, Dr. Fassbinder is a sex maniac.

Meanwhile, Allen himself has a minor role as Sellers' friend, who is in love with Romy Schneider, one of the women who wants Sellers to marry her. So Sellers, Allen and O'Toole all want Prentiss, although all three of them lust after scores of other beautiful women over the course of the movie. Allen ends up with the usually-near nude Ursula Andress, who is described in the film as "a close personal friend of James Bond."

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Main Cast:

• Peter Sellers .... Dr. Fritz Fassbender
• Peter O'Toole .... Michael James
• Romy Schneider .... Carole Werner
• Capucine .... Renee Lefebvre
• Paula Prentiss .... Liz Bien
• Woody Allen .... Victor Skakapopulis
• Ursula Andress .... Rita
• Eddra Gale .... Anna Fassbender (as Edra Gale)
• Katrin Schaake .... Jacqueline
• Eléonore Hirt .... Mrs. Sylvia Werner
• Jean Parédès .... Marcel
• Jacques Balutin .... Etienne
• Jess Hahn .... Mr. Werner
• Howard Vernon .... Doctor
• Michel Subor .... Philippe

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Editorial:

An appealing, free-floating lunacy fuels What's New Pussycat?, and there's enough of it bubbling around to carry the movie past its many defects. The cast is like a collection of terribly attractive people stumbling over each other at a disorganized cocktail party--they aren't always witty, and some of them are drunk, but there's enough going on to keep you distracted. Peter O'Toole plays a swinging London womanizer seeking help for his addiction, who makes the mistake of consulting one Dr. Fritz Fassbender (Peter Sellers), a demented psychoanalyst. Woody Allen made his movie debut here and wrote the script (much altered, to Allen's chagrin, in the filmmaking process). This movie and Casino Royale--which also features Sellers, Allen, Ursula Andress, and a Burt Bacharach song-- are overstuffed '60s artifacts, brimming with mod chaos. Alas, neither film is as funny as it should be. --Robert Horton

What's New, Pussycat? Trivia:
Many fans already know that this was Woody Allen's first film which he wrote. But did you also know....

Additional:

Gross: $8.7
Release Date: June 22, 1965 (USA), October 8, 1965 (West Germany) January 27, 1966 (Sweeden), January 14, 1966 (Finland)