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Ryan O’Neal & Barbra Streisand Ask WHAT’S UP DOC? Saturday Morning at The Hi-Pointe

By Tom Stockman | April 3, 2017

“Don’t you dare strike that brave, unbalanced woman!”

WHAT’S UP DOC? screens at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater this weekend as part of their Classic Film Series. It’s Saturday, April 8th at 10:30am at the Hi-Pointe located at 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117. The film will be introduced by Harry Hamm, movie reviewer for KMOX. Admission is only $5

I first went to see director Peter Bogdanovich’s WHAT’S UP DOC? with my parents when I was 10 years old at the Esquire Theater (right around the corner from the Hi-Pointe!) back in ’72. We as a family had an uproariously good time (at least I think we did – that was a long time ago). Ryan O’Neal, as the poker-faced, straight-laced, hen-pecked, scholarly authority on rocks and musicality plays Howard Bannister, the perfect straight man to Barbra Streisand’s wandering, wise-cracking, lustful, but solidly grounded Judy Maxwell, the Daddy’s Little Girl with the voice of an angel. Madeline Kahn plays the overbearing fiancee whose obsessive organizational skills explain why even Howard is so irresistibly taken with Judy. These three characters — and the four identical suitcases that set them on the wackiest adventure of their lives — make for one of the funniest screwball comedies of the ‘70s. Be sure to listen, in one of the best scenes of the film early on, to the taxi driver who chants after O’Neal: “Yes, Eunice.” It’s pure gold. Do yourself a favor and head over to the Hi-Pointe Saturday morning.