fox exec and shareholder in 1977 must have throw their collective hand in the air when present with this infantile vanity project from a clearly unrestrained gene wilder represent he write direct and star in this excruciating and labor so called comedy and it be a blueprint for not allow temporarily popular comedian free reign to be auteurs . just because he be funny in the clever brook or kahn comedy do not automatically make him funny on his own . and this prove it beyond doubt . the fox studio art direction and set design of the 20 be lovingly craft and expensively produce . . and then wilder run around like a neurotic infant and screaming and splutter stomp all over the cast and extra like a male lina lamont at a jazz baby bar mitzvah . after fox expensive disaster at long last love and lucky lady of the previous two year the studio management must have be chew the palm tree on the lot down to the root after preview this . thank god star war be on the horizon to bail fox out of that money pit . in australia fox be so embarrassed by this fiasco it be not release and sit on the shelf wait for some sympathetic cinema owner to volunteer show it . and here the other wilder or mel brook be huge success . if ever a film need madeline kahn and mel brook it be this . instead we get more of the huntz hall level mug from dom deluise that send the planet mad in other painful misfire like sextette or the end . this film should in jewish comedy parlance be call the world great liver and chop up accordingly . it be the same sort of ghastly and expensive mindset that also give u harry and walter go to new york . kid today and or even 30 year old would just spit at the tv if you show this to them and so rightly disgust at the lame babyish drivel wilder seem to think be his genius . i love fun or bad film and this be not one .