Friday Film Flashback: What's Up Doc?
“What's Up Doc?” remains, in my opinion, one of the funniest movies to ever come out of Hollywood. Fifty (gulp!) years later, it still holds up. This farcical tale centers on four identical overnight bags that get mixed up causing all kinds of hilarious trouble. One of the bags is full of expensive jewelry; another, top-secret government papers; another, igneous rocks belonging to Dr. Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal); and the fourth, the clothes and belongings of Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand), who seems to cause problems wherever she goes. The bags get mixed up in a San Francisco hotel when people are trying to steal the jewels and the government papers and get the wrong ones. Another mix up – perpetuated by Judy – is that the man giving Howard grant money believes Judy is his fiance, Eunice Burns (Madeline Kahn). Eunice – again, thanks to Judy – is eventually kidnapped by the people trying to steal the jewels. When everyone realizes there are actually four identical ...