I watched the strangest movie the other night. Lord Love a Duck (1966) on AMC. It was directed by George Axelrod. It starred Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, and Ruth Gordon.
Axelrod began as a successful writer of Broadway sex farces, such as The Seven Year Itch, filmed in 1955 by Billy Wilder with Marilyn Monroe. He also wrote adaptations, for Blake Edwards' Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), based on Truman Capote's novella, and John Frankenheimer's mordant thriller, The Manchurian Candidate (1962).
I like all of those movies so I figured why not? This was just one of the oddest films I've ever seen. I can't stop thinking about it. It went from being a slapstick comedy to bitter condemnation of the cult of personality to extremely black comedy and ends up just trashing socila norms and society. The film leaps in and out of these genre's pretty deftly I might add.
Check it sometime. It's worth watching.