One of those movies I think people assumed would be a hit - Ryan O'Neal had just been in The Main Event, director Andrew Bergman was making his debut but had written Blazing Saddles and The In Laws. It has a sexy concept - academic dragged into the world of fashion via loan sharks, academic falls in love with wife of gangster (Richard Kiel).
There's a bunch of elements - O'Neal develops jeans that show the bum which are a sensation, then Kiel finds out his wife is cheating, they wind up crashing an opera. It's spread out over months when a more compressed time frame might be more suitable. Also it felt as though it was missing a character or two - a stuffy fiance for O'Neal, say, or for there to be more meat in the Warden-O'Neal relationship, or for Warden to be Barbara Streisand.
A funny ad, some funny moments. It doesn't quite jell. A young John Stockwell is a college student. Kiel gets to have fun, be cuckolded, go to the baths, sing opera. He would've loved this.
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