S.O.B. (1981 film)
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Theatrical release poster by John Alvin.
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| Directed by | Blake Edwards |
| Produced by |
Tony Adams Blake Edwards |
| Written by | Blake Edwards |
| Starring |
Julie Andrews William Holden Richard Mulligan Robert Preston Larry Hagman Robert Webber |
| Music by | Henry Mancini |
| Cinematography | Harry Stradling Jr. |
| Edited by | Ralph E. Winters |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (theatrical) |
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122 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Unknown |
| Box office | $14,867,086 |
S.O.B. is a 1981 American comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards. It stars Julie Andrews,Richard Mulligan,Robert Preston,Larry Hagman,Robert Vaughn,Robert Webber,Loretta Swit,Shelley Winters, and William Holden.
S.O.B. was produced by Lorimar and originally released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on July 1, 1981.
The story is a satire of the film industry and Hollywood society. The main character, Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan), is a phenomenally successful film producer who has just made the first major flop of his career, to the dismay of his movie studio, resulting in the loss of his own sanity. Felix attempts suicide four times:
Felix resolves to save both the film and his reputation. With great difficulty he persuades the studio and his wife Sally Miles (Julie Andrews), an Oscar-winning movie star with a squeaky-clean image, to allow him to revise the film into a soft-core pornographic musical in which she must appear topless. He liquidates most of his wealth to buy the existing footage and to finance further production. If he fails, both he and Sally will be impoverished, at least by Hollywood standards.
At first the studio's executives are keen to unload the film onto Felix and move on, but when Sally goes through with the topless scene and the film seems a likely success, they plot to regain control. Using California's community property laws, they get the distribution and final-cut rights by persuading Sally to sign them over. An angry and deranged Felix tries to steal the movie negatives from the studio's color lab vault, armed only with a water pistol. He is shot and killed by police who think the gun is real.
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