Peter Bogdanovich directs Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal and Madeline Kahn in this screwball comedy where four guests in a San Francisco hotel have the same identical plaid travelling bag and chaos ensues as they get mixed-up, stolen then chased.

I’m not a big fan of either lead but Madeline Kahn is superb as the nag. Just stay with her O’Neal… she’s worth the henpecking. This is often framed as some daring revival of a long lost genre but it is hard to ignore It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World happened less than a decade previously!? This has more sparkle, that had more gags. Both feel corny now.

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Perfect Double Bill: Love Story (1970)