(New Jersey, New York, Chicago, L.A., Miami; contemporary)
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I wanted to see The Love God? because the concept seemed like such a train wreck, Don Knotts plays Abner Peacock, the small town publisher of a bird watching magazine who is mistaken for a swinging pornographer. It's a Don Knotts film on acid, a curiously prudish sex farce that ends with a virginal wedding. A certain awesomeness must be attributed to this however, because its Disneyisque about sex, something that quite frankly should never have been, but the fact that it was makes it utterly memorable. Mr. Peacock even gets a pretty cool sounding, though lyrically limited, sixty's rock anthem about himself. Fine comic performance by B.S. Pully as 'Icepick Charlie', the mafioso who pay roles the smut magazine Knotts reluctantly finds himself the publisher of. Big nit: Two or three major characters disappear entirely from the film towards the end, and for no clear reason.
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