- Actors: Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss
- Directors: Clive Donner, Richard Talmadge
- Writers: Woody Allen
- Producers: Charles K. Feldman, John C. Shepridge, John Dark, Richard Sylbert, Warren Beatty
- Language English
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Warner
- Run Time: 108 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CKA7
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 28,024 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Loud, garish and full of energy. Very much of its time and worth viewing for that alone.
Peter O'Toole plays an unlikely ladies man, given that he bears a strong resemblance to a ventriloquist's dummy (anyone who remembers 'Lord Charles' will get the picture) and does plenty of his trademark yelling. Romy Schneider is beautiful as his commitment-seeking regular girl. Sellers goes nicely over the top as sex-obsessed therapist, Doctor Fassbender, and Capucine is an elegant treat for the eyes, portraying a classy nymphomaniac.
Set in France - presumably to emphasise the stereo-type of France being the land of lovers - O'Toole finds himself pursued relentlessly by a bevy of beauties at every turn, while trying to be faithful to his girl.
Dreadful editing and continuity, but what this film lacks in polish it makes up for in vigour, capturing the breathless energy which was emerging in the sixties. Great music, too.
28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
The quintessential comedy of the sixties. The first movie to be written by Woody Allen it stars Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole and a bevy of beauties including Ursula Andress and Paula Prentiss. Stuffed full of wonderful quotes and a slew of physical comedy, the film showcases one of Seller's greatest comedic performances. The plot concerns a womaniser's - a handsome Peter O'Toole - attempts to straighten up before marrying the woman he loves; cue revelations on the psychiatrist's coach, encounters in strip clubs and Fellini pastiche dream sequences. Not forgetting a soundtrack by Bert Bacharach featuring Dionne Warwick and Tom Jones. The film suffers from some flaky direction and the plot meanders somewhat but this rarely detracts from the fun. The film is banned in Norway because of a scene where Peter Sellers tries to commit suicide by burning himself wrapped in a Norwegian flag.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Mad as a strange cheese, this movie is scriptwriter Woody Allen's first screenplay, so that goes a long way to explain the complete unevenness and disorganistion of this movie. It took him 15 years of practice after this to actually produce anything resembling a cohesive, non-fragmentary narrative and a further five to stop telling the same jokes, so really, if you want to watch this film because you're a Sellers, O'Toole or Romy Schneider fan (she is delectable in this) then you will simply have to bare all the worst excesses of this man's craft. Of course he also makes it hilarious most of the time, and this does compensate for the very bumpy ride. He has a strong part himself and he made sure he would have some sort of film career with a full on slapstick Woody Allen performance. O'Toole just gets stuck into the chaos of it all and proves how adept at comedy he was, and Sellers puts on another silly wig and another silly voice and, effortlessly conjuring up a character from his Goon days, out zanes everyone, even Woody Allen. It is madness and you really do wonder what they put in the director's tea, or if it was infact just Allen's cat with a beret on, (and glasses of course) in charge of it all. Either way, it certainly has its moments and leaves an impression - mostly of the 1960s being a very fun and whacky place to be.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
not bad comedy 60's period piece
I suppose this movie starts out vey promisingly from the opening titles which are luscious to the opening scenes with Dr Fassbender (Peter Sellars) a psychotherapist with his... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. Robert Marsland
Genious!
WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? is another of my all time favourite Peter Sellers films.
Peter Sellers and Peter O'Toole are fabulous together and again another musical score by Burt... Read more
Peter Sellers and Peter O'Toole are fabulous together and again another musical score by Burt... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Robert Hart-Green
What's new Pussycat? film review
One of my favourite films. Rude outrageous and very funny their is in this film however a very funny clever and sharp Woody Allen film with all his usual themes, the quest for the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. J. J. Lane
Still one of my favourites
I always liked this film and after all these years it still makes me laugh.
Excellent performances from Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers and Romy Schneider. Read more
Excellent performances from Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers and Romy Schneider. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Alamo
Dr Fassbender
It is definitely not the best movie starring Peter Sellers and Peter O'Toole, but with a bit of alcohol in one's glass, one should be able to follow crazy ideas of Dr. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Luke
Crazy, man!
Yes, I love this film, and find it quite irresistable every time it's on TV.
Most of the reviewers here highlight Peter Sellers and Woody Allen - quite rightly - but,... Read more
Most of the reviewers here highlight Peter Sellers and Woody Allen - quite rightly - but,... Read more
Published 16 months ago by P. A. Clarke
enjoy the silliness
I had forgotten how silly this film was, but Tom Jones singing the title track is well worth the money.
Published 19 months ago by P. D. Willetts
good service
Product in excellent condition sent well packed and rapidly. Would recommend this seller to anyone
Published 21 months ago by doughnut
classic farce
This Sellers film has everything: great music, one of Sellers' great characters (a sex-mad, unloved psychiatrist), a funny romantic lead in O'Toole, and Woody Allen in great form. Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2006 by DH Dixon
I enjoyed it
If you like 60's films you'll love this. While the editing is awful the atmosphere is good and Woody Allens script has many great lines. Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2005 by Chickenhouse Fan
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