What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
George Seaton
George Peppard
Mary Tyler Moore
Dom Deluise
John Mcmartin
Nathaniel Frey
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A brightly plumed tropical bird, infected with a rare virus that causes instant happiness, arrives in Manhattan on a Greek freighter and immediately spreads the "disease" to normally irritable New Yorkers. Among the first to be infected are Pete, a Madison Avenue drop-out who has become an East Village artist, and his hippie girl friend, Liz. They soon become well-dressed disseminators of good will; they adopt the bird, name it Amigo, and protect it from city officials who are disturbed by the alarming drop in liquor, cigarette, and tranquilizer sales. Fearing a collapse of the city's financial structure, the mayor enlists the assistance of presidential aide J. Gardner Monroe. When germ masks are distributed to the populace, Pete and his new friends thwart the government's plan by infecting the masks. Eventually, Amigo is captured, and an antidote is found for the mass euphoria. Soon New Yorkers are again snarling at each other, and Pete returns to his former bearded, shiftless self. Liz, who never actually contracted the virus, remains the same since she was only responding to the kindness of others. After Amigo has escaped from his Central Park aviary, Pete finally realizes that Liz is all that he really wants, and the two are reunited.
Director
George Seaton
Cast
George Peppard
Mary Tyler Moore
Dom Deluise
John Mcmartin
Nathaniel Frey
Charles Lane
Jeanne Arnold
George Furth
Susan Saint James
Don Stroud
Morty Gunty
Joe Ponazecki
Frank Campanella
Arny Freeman
Martin O'hara
John Ryan
Cleavon Little
Emily Yancy
Gillian Spencer
Donald Hotten
Robert Moore
Thelma Ritter
Joey Faye
Marc Seaton
Victoria Racimo
Mina Kolb
Peter Turgeon
Kay Turner
Moses Gunn
Bob Kaliban
Ira Lewis
George Petrie
Hugh Franklin
Hy Anzell
Peter Gumeny
Eda Reiss Merin
Jara Kohout
Nat Polan
Barbara Minkus
Salem Ludwig
Franklin Cover
Louis Zorich
George Sperdakos
Albert Henderson
Lincoln Kilpatrick
Tom Ahearne
Crew
Michael Bennett
Ray Berwick
Dave Blume
Henry Bumstead
Ernesto Caparros
De Vol
Paul Ganapoler
Larry Germain
Joseph Gershenson
Alexander Golitzen
Edith Head
Jerry Keller
Alma Macrorie
John Mccarthy Jr.
Phil Parslow
Robert Pirosh
Donald Roberts
George Seaton
George Seaton
Jim Shields
Waldon O. Watson
Bud Westmore
Wallace Worsley
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Copyright length: 103 min. Location scenes filmed in New York City.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Spring May 1968
Released in United States Spring May 1968
