New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo trails Angela Niotes, the elegant wife of a wealthy Italian industrialist, while Charles Rutledge and Arthur Brodsky follow Dolores Martin, the beautiful young wife of a jealous husband. Their respective cases are complicated when John falls for Angela, and Charles falls for Dolores.
Cinematography
Robby Müller makes Manhattan look like a dream you're sad to wake from.
Acting
Hepburn's final romantic lead—every glance says goodbye to the movies.
Direction
Bogdanovich chasing his own Paper Moon magic with grown-ups.
Director
Peter Bogdanovich
Audrey Hepburn
Angela Niotes
Ben Gazzara
John Russo
Patti Hansen
Sam
John Ritter
Charles Rutledge
Dorothy Stratten
Dolores Martin
Blaine Novak
Arthur Brodsky
Linda MacEwen
Amy Lester
George Morfogen
Leon Leondopolous
Colleen Camp
Christy Miller
Sean Hepburn Ferrer
Jose
Glenn Scarpelli
Michael Niotes
Vassili Lambrinos
Stavros Niotes
Antonia Bogdanovich
Stefania Russo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bogdanovich financed this himself after studio rejections, making it a $6 million love letter to classic Hollywood that destroyed his career. The film's failure and Stratten's murder happened within months of each other.
The real Manhattan locations—pre-gentrification streets, the old taxis, Hepburn's actual neighborhood—create a documentary of a city that no longer exists, accidentally preserved in a movie nobody saw.
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