**SPOILERS** Ridicules and over the top 1960's adult drama involving TV talk show host Steve Rojack, Stuart Whitman, who ends up getting involved with an old flame of his Cherry McMahon, Janet Leigh, who just happens to be the moll of Mafia chieftain Eddie Ganucci, Joe DeSantis, whom he, on his talk show, has it in for!
All these characters come together when Steve's estrange wife the boozed up and out of control Deborah Kelly Rojack, Elenor Parker, either falls or is pushed, by Steve, to her death. That happened during a heated argument with Steve over giving him a divorce at her penthouse apartment on top of the Kelly Building owed by her father billionaire real estate developer Barney Kelly, Llyod Noland.
The movie has Steve go through a life change in his guilt about Deborah's untimely death as well as him trying to prove to the L.A police, who have no use for him at all, that he's innocent and that his wife's death was an accident. There's also the matter of his long lost love Cherry who 's now involved with the Mafia as Mafia boss Ganucci's main squeeze. Cherry is anything but grateful to the two timing Steve in what he did to her by dumping her, when she became pregnant, for Deborah ten years ago!
As the film goes on Steve slowly starts to lose it as he realizes that not only his career and future on TV is about to end but even his very life! That's if Ganucci's, who Steve is trying to put behind bars, hit men get a hold of him.***SPOILERS*** The predictable ending has Steve get away with the murder, even though it looked like it was an accident, of his wife in the LAPD not having enough evidence in bringing him to trial. But Steve does end up getting whacked by Ganucci's boys that includes dead eye hit-man Nicky, played by 1960's TV talk show host Les Crane, at his former lover Cherry McMhaon's hotel suite that he was hiding out in. Worth watching not only for its unintentionally comedy but as well as for actor Stuart Whitman's hysterical straight-jacket like performance! The man, Whitman, at some points in the movie looked like he was suffering from a complete emotional breakdown even though the scenes he was in, while breaking down, didn't even call for it!
P.S With the Warner Brothers Studio having big plans for the movie "An American Dream" and spending millions in publicity on it the film bombed out in the box office the first week it was released. Trying to salvage what they could on this turkey Warner Brothers Studio later re-released it under the provocative title "See You in Hell Darling" which didn't help much, in getting the public to see it, either.
All these characters come together when Steve's estrange wife the boozed up and out of control Deborah Kelly Rojack, Elenor Parker, either falls or is pushed, by Steve, to her death. That happened during a heated argument with Steve over giving him a divorce at her penthouse apartment on top of the Kelly Building owed by her father billionaire real estate developer Barney Kelly, Llyod Noland.
The movie has Steve go through a life change in his guilt about Deborah's untimely death as well as him trying to prove to the L.A police, who have no use for him at all, that he's innocent and that his wife's death was an accident. There's also the matter of his long lost love Cherry who 's now involved with the Mafia as Mafia boss Ganucci's main squeeze. Cherry is anything but grateful to the two timing Steve in what he did to her by dumping her, when she became pregnant, for Deborah ten years ago!
As the film goes on Steve slowly starts to lose it as he realizes that not only his career and future on TV is about to end but even his very life! That's if Ganucci's, who Steve is trying to put behind bars, hit men get a hold of him.***SPOILERS*** The predictable ending has Steve get away with the murder, even though it looked like it was an accident, of his wife in the LAPD not having enough evidence in bringing him to trial. But Steve does end up getting whacked by Ganucci's boys that includes dead eye hit-man Nicky, played by 1960's TV talk show host Les Crane, at his former lover Cherry McMhaon's hotel suite that he was hiding out in. Worth watching not only for its unintentionally comedy but as well as for actor Stuart Whitman's hysterical straight-jacket like performance! The man, Whitman, at some points in the movie looked like he was suffering from a complete emotional breakdown even though the scenes he was in, while breaking down, didn't even call for it!
P.S With the Warner Brothers Studio having big plans for the movie "An American Dream" and spending millions in publicity on it the film bombed out in the box office the first week it was released. Trying to salvage what they could on this turkey Warner Brothers Studio later re-released it under the provocative title "See You in Hell Darling" which didn't help much, in getting the public to see it, either.