The Maltese Bippy (1969)
Directed by Norman Panama
Genres - Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Creature Film, Horror Comedy |
Release Date - Jun 18, 1969 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 92 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - G
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
Cashing in on the popularity of their comedy series Laugh-In, comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin team up ala Abbott and Costello in this spoof of old horror movies and mysteries. Rowan plays a pornographic film producer and Martin plays his star, who is having trouble sleeping at night and seriously suspects that he has become a werewolf. To verify this, the two travel to a "haunted" Gothic Long Island mansion and end up embroiled with Julie Newmar while searching, amidst a series of murders, for a missing diamond. Rowan and Martin's television show was hip and funny. Alas, this film is neither and bombed at the box-office.
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fortune [wealth], house, opal, bad-guy, good-guy, haunted-house, killing, multiple-murder, murder, pornography, search, stars [celebrities], treasure, werewolf