Fresh
Peter Bogdanovich's film is an okay comedy-drama about the early days of motion pictures.
Variety Staff, Variety
Nickelodeon
LOVE. ACTION. COMEDY. SUSPENSE. EXCITMENT.
1976 · 2h 6m · PG
Comedy
Directed by
Peter Bogdanovich
Overview
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.
Director and cast
- Peter Bogdanovich Director
- Ryan O'Neal as Leo Harrigan
- Burt Reynolds as Buck Greenway
- Tatum O'Neal as Alice Forsyte
- Brian Keith as H.H. Cobb
- Stella Stevens as Marty Reeves
- John Ritter as Franklin Frank
- Jane Hitchcock as Kathleen Cooke
- Jack Perkins as Michael Gilhooley
- Brion James as Bailiff
- Sidney Armus as Judge
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
14%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Bogdanovich is trying to do an interesting and commendable thing in dramatizing aesthetic passion; his failure is as noble as it is conspicuous.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Peter Bogdanovich knows a great deal about movies, including how they are made. Perhaps he doesn't know why they are made. In any case, knowing how something is made isn't the same as making it.
Richard Eder, New York Times
Rotten
We're reminded that Orson Welles described a movie studio as the biggest electric train a kid could ever get. Bogdanovich doesn't let us play with his train. Instead, he keeps us on the outside of a curiously flat movie.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The direction is agonisingly pedantic for a comedy, and leaves O'Neal and Reynolds totally exposed, mugging away in charmless and clumsy fashion.
Time Out
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