This is the usual story of a Hollywood studio luring a hip, hot filmmaker from New York in this case Brian De Palma, to make a film that would appeal to a younger audience. Not liking the approach De Palma took, the studio and the producer Tommy Smothers, proceeded to interfere with De Palma so much that the end result was a poor comedy with a couple of inventive visual touches.
The story has something to do with a businessman who drops out of the corporate culture and decides to be a dancing magician with the help of his teacher played by Orson Welles of all people.
Along the way Smother gets involve with Katherine Ross playing a character called "the beautiful girl," and realizes that he has just traded one corporate straight jacket for another type of straight jacket. There's probably a decent idea or two rolling around in this film but it's all for nothing, the film just doesn't work.
Written by Jordan Crittenden the running time is 92 minutes.
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