Amoeba Music

When pop music duo Sonny & Cher achieved fame in the late 1960's, Columbia Pictures assigned director William Friedkin to helm this screen vehicle for the husband-and-wife team. The self-referential plot concerns the efforts of wealthy film mogul Mordicus (George Sanders) to star Sonny & Cher in a movie using a dusty old script about a hillbilly couple and their "mountain music." They balk at the concept, and Sonny spends most of the movie complaining and envisioning himself as a Wild West sheriff, a Tarzan-esque jungle man, and a private eye in his quest to come up with a better story for their cinematic debut. Finally, they face down Mordicus' threat of legal action, refuse to make his movie and share a rousing rendition of I Got You Babe, artistic integrity intact.