Bachelor Flat

Bachelor Flat is a 1962 American comedy film starring Terry-Thomas, Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer and Celeste Holm. Filmed in CinemaScope in Malibu, the film is a revised version of director Frank Tashlin's own Susan Slept Here of 1954. A charming British anthropology Professor Bruce Patterson has to live with Helen Bushmill , his fiancée. Helen is away traveling, and has failed to tell him that she has a seventeen-year-old daughter Libby , who shows up at her mother's home unaware that Helen in engaged. Meanwhile he has to resist the advances of the neighbourhood ladies who barge in... unexpectedly. At the same time, Patterson must deal with the continual invasions of his cynical neighbor, and law student, Mike , who soon develops a crush on Libby. Intertwined in the story is Mike's persistent dachshund, determined to bury the professor's prize possession of a rare dinosaur bone. In an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Tashlin said he included the dachshund as a satire on CinemaScope due to the dog's shape. Variety called it a "frivolous, farcical concoction" and credits much of the great comedy to the supporting cast.
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