What's Up, Doc? (1972 film)

What's Up, Doc?
Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold
Directed byPeter Bogdanovich
Screenplay by
Story byPeter Bogdanovich
Produced byPeter Bogdanovich
Starring
CinematographyLaszlo Kovacs
Edited byVerna Fields
Music byArtie Butler
Production
company
Saticoy Productions
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • March 9, 1972 (1972-03-09) (New York City)[1]
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4 million
Box office$66 million[2]

What's Up, Doc? is a 1972 American screwball comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal. It was intended to pay homage to comedy films of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, especially Bringing Up Baby[3] and Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny cartoons. The film was loosely based on the 1971 novel A Glimpse of Tiger by Herman Raucher.[4]

What's Up, Doc? was a success, and became the third highest-grossing film of 1972. It won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) 1973 "Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen" award for Buck Henry, David Newman, and Robert Benton. What's Up, Doc? was ranked number 61 on the list of the 100 greatest American comedies published by the American Film Institute (AFI),[5] number 68 on the AFI's list of 100 greatest love stories in American cinema, and number 58 on the list of the WGA's 101 Funniest Screenplays published by the Writers Guild of America.[6]

  1. ^ What's Up, Doc? at the American Film Institute Catalog
  2. ^ "What's Up, Doc? (1972)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 24, 2023.
  3. ^ Peter Bogdanovich's commentary on the Bringing Up Baby DVD
  4. ^ Weisberg, Sam (November 9, 2014). "The Little Movie That Couldn't: An Oral History of Elliott Gould's Never-Completed "A Glimpse of Tiger"". Hidden Films. Retrieved Oct 9, 2019.
  5. ^ "100 Greatest Comedies of the 20th Century" (PDF). wfblibrary.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 23, 2017. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  6. ^ Brownfield, Paul. "101 Funniest Screenplays". Offbroadway.broadwayworld.com. Retrieved November 11, 2015.

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