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A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971 Directed by Richard Erdman
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Vincent Price James Darren Jill St. John Jim Backus John Harding Kim Hamilton Gino Conforti Jerry Hausner Bert Holland Grace Albertson Jay Jostyn Lynne Lipton Bettye Ackerman Marty Allen Kathie Browne Richard Burton Phyllis Diller Jay C. Flippen Zsa Zsa Gabor Higgins Frank Inn Sam Jaffe Rose Marie Dick Martin Darren McGavin Cesar Romero Mickey Rooney Wild Bill Tucker David Wayne Show All…
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31 Dec 1971
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An absolute dream of a movie. A dog wears funny wigs, lingerie, a helmet while catching a lift to the beach on the back of a motorcycle. Makes loving eyes at Vincent Price while a Wayne/Cassandra style Dreamweaver-esque fantasy plays out in the dogs head. Don't blink or you'll miss Darrin McGavin. Mooch navigates the mean streets of Hollywood while Zsa Zsa offers tips on how to keep it classy ("No nudes is good news"). Transcendent, from start to finish.
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Bizarre 50-minute television thing about a dog who goes to Hollywood, looks at strip joints and porno theaters, gets kicked out of a Playboy bunny club, has dreams about being a stripper, goes to the Brown Derby, is coached on how to be sexy and land a man by Zsa Zsa Gábor, visits a head shop, and runs into Vincent Price and many other stars of the time.
Oh, by the way it's for children??
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Existential fluff piece about a dog showing off all of her boyfriends among which Vincent Price.
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Hello. Hi. What the fuck is this movie.
Mooch Goes to Hollywood was the second part of my doggy double-bill (the first being the haunting Love on a Leash). It is a very confusing film. Not narratively. Narratively, it couldn't be much simpler. There's about two minutes of plot stretched into fifty. A cute dog named Mooch (played by Benji himself) comes to Hollywood to be a big star. Mooch is guided by the voice of Zsa Zsa Gabor. Gabor sends a lot of mixed messages. Sometimes she'll telling Mooch to avoid the sleazy side of town, other times she seems to be encouraging it. No, it's not the story that is confusing. What is confusing is JUST ON WHO…
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gets so weird that i was genuinely worried mooch would fuck a human being.
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the reason movies are made. -
A l'il dawg moves to Hollywood to become a star and almost marries Vincent Price? For some reason Zsa Zsa Gabor narrates and also gives Mooch the mutt tips on how to snag a rich husband? Mooch fantasizes about working at a strip club complete with skimpy canine underwear? Everyone in this movie wants to fuck Mooch including James Darren and Jill St. John? Featuring cameos from Phyllis Diller, Mickey Rooney, and a chimpanzee in a wheelchair? An hour long TV whatsit stuffed with four-legged dream sequences about frolicking on the beach with Hollywood Square celebrities, licking their faces, and living like a best in show Bel-Air queen? To cap it all off? A voiceover.
"This is Richard Burton saying farewell, Mooch, wherever you are."
Don't believe me? See this unhinged beautiful dark twisted pup starlet fantasy with your own eyeballs.
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A bizarre mix of Hollywood vanity project and "doing something for the kids".
A cute pup, led around by the disembodied voice of Zsa Zsa Gabor, tries to make it in Hollywood. I guess?
Absolutely bizarre, painfully dated but strangely compelling. Mostly effective at making viewers re-evaluate their own life decisions.
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"This is Richard Burton saying farewell, Mooch, wherever you are."
A star is four-legged.
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POV : Vincent Price en train de courir vers toi sur la plage au son de L’Alleluia. Sauf que toi, t’es juste une chienne de rue qui rêve d’une vie meilleure sous les feux des projecteurs, le gratin hollywoodien ne prend pas tes ambitions au sérieux, t’as même pas d’argent pour te payer un hot-dog et tu te fais slut shamer aux 30 secondes par un criquet du nom de Zsa Zsa Gabor qui t’encourage également à être super sexy parce qu’il n’y a aucun répit pour les demoiselles, même sous forme canine. Pauvre Mooch!
Aucune idée comment noter ça... C’est juste tellement étrange – faut le voir pour le croire.
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Agonizingly unfunny short feature co-written by Jim Backus about a dog ostensibly trying to make it in Hollywood. Richard Burton (!!!!!) and Zsa Zsa Gabor narrate this excruciating soul-waster, with Backus, Vincent Price, Edward G. Robinson (in his final released appearance), Jill St. John, Mickey Rooney, and others slumming beyond comprehension in cameos. Considering that everyone in it and behind it had meaningful and even important film careers, it is impossible to imagine how any of them thought there was anything other than embarrassment possible in this dogcrap movie.