DIRECTOR: RICHARD LESTER
BOTTOM LINE: Part mob comedy and part drag review, this exhausting adaptation of Terence McNally’s hit play wears out its welcome in the first thirty minutes, but the laughs keep coming! Jack Weston is a mob boss on the run who takes refuge in a gay bathhouse, leading to multiple cases of mistaken identity, not to mention sexual confusion. Rita Moreno gets the most laughs playing Googie Gomez, a hopelessly untalented actress who thinks that Weston’s character is a Broadway producer.
A real curiosity! Directed by Richard Lester, who had seen better days with the Beatles in “A Hard Day’s Night” and “The Three Musketeers.”. With Jerry Stiller, F. Murray Abraham, Kaye Ballard and Treat Williams, all of whom have their moments.
Seventy Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1967)
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