What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc?


Year: 1972 | Running Time: 94 minutes

With Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1938) as his blueprint, Peter Bogdanovich resurrected and payed homage to 1930s screwball comedy in What's Up, Doc? (1972). When wacky co-ed Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand, in the Katharine Hepburn part) spies nebbishy musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal ...more

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Like many of his early films, director Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up Doc? is informed by a strong sense of the history of American cinema. Essentially a remake of Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby -- with an extensive, Buster Keaton-style chase scene planted in the middle -- Doc is an obvious homage to the madcap screwball comedies of the 1930s, updated for the swinging early 1970s. The end result is a hysterical success, thanks to its clever, energetic execution and charming lead performances ...more



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