Peter Bogdanovitch's What's Up, Doc? (1972)

And while we're at it we can't scant the contributions of the editor, Verna Fields, and the production designer Polly Platt.  The design of Mr. Larabee's house -- with those Lucite pillars and all that fancy modern sculpture -- and the surreal rooms on the 17th floor of the Bristol Hotel may be the real stars of the picture.
--A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis on What's Up, Doc? (NY Times, May 22 2020)

A tremendously able craftsman, Frank Tashlin was one of the most inventive visual gag constructionists of the talkies, he brought the outrageous, impossible humor of cartoons and connected it humanly to live action.
--Peter Bogdanovitch, preface to Frank Tashlin (British Film Institute, 1994).

Although What's Up Doc? has a plot loosely based on Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1939) the actual film is based more on the Jerry Lewis films directed by Frank Tashlin -- especially The Disorderly Orderly (1964) -- and Buster Keaton, especially Seven Chances (1925); note that Bogdanovitch has recently made a documentary about Keaton (and it would be nice if he would also make one about the largely-forgotten Tashlin.)  What's Up, Doc? (Bugs Bunny's signature greeting) is often a very funny film but doesn't have the grace of Keaton, the satire of Tashlin or the tension between irresponsibility and professionalism of Hawks.  Rather, it is more like the cartoons of Chuck Jones and others, as suggested by the title, as it moves from slamming doors (as in the cartoons of Tex Avery) and broken windows in a hotel to car crashes and smashes on the hilly streets of San Francisco (I particularly liked one Keaton-like gag where a man goes to open the door on his smashed-up Volkswagon bus and the whole thing falls apart). In other words, unlike the best comedy (think of Lubitsch, McCarey, Preston Sturges), What's Up, Doc? has nothing serious to say -- as the final words of the film demonstrate -- but shows an impressive kinetic energy.  My eight-year-old daughter liked it because, for one reason, at least Ryan O'Neal's jilted fiancée Madeline Kahn ended up with another man (Austin Pendleton), unlike  Cary Grant's fiancée Virginia Walker in Bringing Up Baby.

What's Up, Doc? was the penultimate Bogdanovitch film on which Polly Platt worked, with a script by Robert Benton, David Newman, and Buck Henry.  Cinematographer Lazslo Kovacs worked with Bogdanovitch on four more films.