The Maltese Bippy (1969)

• Director
  • Norman Panama
• Writers
  • Everett Freeman(screenplay)
  • Ray Singer(screenplay)
• Stars
  • Dan Rowan
  • Dick Martin
  • Carol Lynley

  Cashing in on the popularity of their comedy series Laugh-In, comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin team up ala Abbott and Costello in this spoof of old horror movies and mysteries. Rowan plays a pornographic film producer and Martin plays his star, who is having trouble sleeping at night and seriously suspects that he has become a werewolf. To verify this, the two travel to a "haunted" Gothic Long Island mansion and end up embroiled with Julie Newmar while searching, amidst a series of murders, for a missing diamond. Rowan and Martin's television show was hip and funny. Alas, this film is neither and bombed at the box-office.