Dort Clark

Judy Holliday re-creates her Broadway role of flibbertigibbet telephone operator Ella Peterson in Bells are Ringing. Ella works for Susanswerphone, a hole-in-the-wall answering service run by her cousin Sue (Jean Stapleton). Our girl Ella can't help but become involved in the lives of her customers, which bring her to the attention of a dimwitted police detective, Barnes (Dort Clark), who suspects that Susanswerphone is a front for a house of ill repute. The cop is so obtuse that he never notices the story's genuine criminal, a flamboyant German bookie (Eddie Foy Jr.) who poses as a record executive and uses the names of composers as code for the various racetracks around the country. To avoid Barnes' wiretapping, Ella goes around New York in person to minister to the needs of her clientsmost notably playwright Jeffrey Moss (Dean Martin), who is in danger of becoming an alcoholic if he can't come up with a good idea for a play. Assuming a false identity, Ella prattles on about some of her other clients, notably a dentist (Bernie West) who composes pop songs on his air hose. Moss is inspired by Ella, and eventually falls in love with her. Because she will not reveal who she really is to Jeffrey, Ella decides that her relationship is founded on lies, and walks out of his life. But Moss, together with the other Susanswerphone customers who have been "rescued" by Ella, show up at Ella's doorstep for a happy ending.

On a chilly evening, under a bright full moon Cameron Lansing, a lonely boy plays innocently in hiscloset. Later that same night his father (Tab Hunter) is found decapitated among the toys and sneakers a few months later Cameron's mother's boyfriend dies mysteriously. Cotter Smith is Sam Talliaferro, the detective assigned to the case along with Mel Harris, spectacular as the quintessential shrink who detects Cameron's peculiar psychic powers.

In the early 1970s, Dr. David Reuben wrote a very serious sex- instruction manual which became a best-seller. Confronted with this epic of instructional erotica, Woody Allen decided to adapt this book to the screen, which was divided into a number of individual 'topic episodes,' such as 'Do Aphrodisiacs Work?' (this episode has a classy Shakespearean tone), 'What is Sodomy?', 'Why Some Women Have Trouble Reaching Orgasm,' 'Are Transvestites Homosexuals?' and a grand finale: 'What Happens During Ejaculation?' in which Tony Randall is an inside- the-body sperm-bank operator who sends Woody out as Sperm No. 2--an excellent position--except that almost-triumphant sperm Woody finds himself up against a 400-foot diaphragm!... Also starring John Carradine, Burt Reynolds, Lynn Redgrave and Regis Philbin.

Swindlers Quincy and Jason, posing as master and slave, ride into backwater prairie towns. Jason is sold to the highest bidder, Quincy later springs him loose and they split town, split the cash and head on to the next sucker.