What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc? (1972) is Peter Bogdanovich's screwball comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Four identical plaid overnight bags check into the same San Francisco hotel, and from there nothing goes where it should.

One bag holds smuggled jewels, another classified papers, a third a box of igneous rocks, the last just clothes. Bellhops, crooks and spies keep grabbing the wrong one. Caught in the middle is Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand), a brilliant troublemaker who fixes on stiff musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal) the moment he arrives with his fiancee for a convention. It builds to a hotel-wide disaster and a chase through the city's hills that few comedies have topped since.

Bogdanovich made it as a love letter to the 1930s comedies of Hawks and Sturges, yet it moves at its own breakneck pace. Madeline Kahn's film debut as the put-upon fiancee is reason enough to press play — she walks off with every scene she's in. Light, fast and genuinely funny without a wasted minute. Stream What's Up, Doc? (1972) online on iFILM.