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This film could have been one of Woody's best films ever. After the acclaim that Annie Hall got he could do anything and he chose Interiors. Even Allen himself said that it would have been better if there were more laughs in it. We did not get the first laugh until 1 hour into the film. I absolutely loved the part played by Maureen Stapleton (Pearl), she was marvelous. When she came into their lives everything seemed to get better. The family had been living in a world created by their mother, very drab and plain, and now Pearl can bring them out of it.

This movie was very funny. Hope plays a Prize fighters manager who gets swindled into the army by his corrupt partners, where he finds another fighter. He trains the kid to beat his ex-fighter and win the belt. While doing this he gets into his usual Bob Hope trouble with the MP and a woman. This is another good move by Bob Hope.

This is probably one of the funniest movies to come from the 1960's. Woody Allen really should have directed it though, It would have been even better. Allen felt that the picture didn't go the way he planned it. After this film he decided to direct all of his own pictures from then on. The gags in the film resemble that of Buster Keaton and Groucho Marx. It is evident that Allen was influenced tremendously by these two men. The scene whee everyone piles into the room is reminiscent of the scene in the Marx brothers film Room Service. And near the end when they are all on go-cars looks as though it could have been done by Buster Keaton. All in all this is a tremendously funny film I couldn't keep from laughing out loud. Peter O'Toole was absolutely fabulous in the role as Michael James. It just showed that he could do a little more than Lawrence of Arabia.