
The odyssey of a young youth who wants no part of sex...he wants it all!
Naive library clerk Bernard Chanticleer moves out of his parents’ home and into a chaotic city full of eccentric landlords, meddling parents, and romantic missteps. Infatuated with a glamorous but manipulative go-go dancer, he learns through heartbreak—and the kindness of a steadfast admirer—what growing up really means.
- 6.1
- 1966
- Released
- 1h 37m

Elizabeth Hartman
Barbara Darling
Geraldine Page
Margery Chanticleer
Peter Kastner
Bernard Chanticleer
Rip Torn
I.H. Chanticleer
Michael Dunn
Richard Mudd
Karen Black
Amy Partlett
Tony Bill
Raef del Grado
Julie Harris
Miss Nora Thing
Dolph Sweet
Patrolman Francis Graf
Michael O'Sullivan
Kurt Dougherty
Rufus Harley
Barbara's Stage Play Crew
Frank Simpson
Barbara's Stage Play Crew
Nina Varela
Barbara's Stage Play Crew
Len De Carl
Barbara's Stage Play Crew
Bill Walters
Commerce Street BG (uncredited)
Released
en
- #new york city
- #library
Reviews

_**A naïve lad goes through an awkward and quirky growth phase in Manhattan**_ A 19 year-old “boy” working as a low-level assistant at the New York Public Library (Peter Kastner) is encouraged by his strict curator father (Rip Torn) to move out on his own and so gets an apartment with a nosey landlady (Julie Harris). There’s a quality lass at work (Karen Black) who’s interested in Bernard (Kast











