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The Love God? (1969)
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.
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Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.
Rating:NR
Genre:Comedy
Written By:Nat Hiken
In Theaters:8/1/1969
Box Office:
Runtime:101 minutes
Studio:Universal Pictures
Cast
Nat Hiken
Director
Don Knotts
Abner Audubon Peacock IV
Anne Francis
Lisa LaMonica
Edmond O'Brien
Osborn Tremaine
Maureen Arthur
Evelyn Tremaine
James Gregory
Darrell Evans Hughes
Maggie Peterson
Rose Ellen Wilkerson
Jesslyn Fax
Miss Love
Jacques Aubuchon
Carter Fenton
Marjorie Bennett
Miss Pickering
Jim Boles
Amos Peacock
Ruth McDevitt
Miss Keezy
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