The Steagle

(1971)

91 minutes

Comedy

Directed by Paul Sylbert 

Cast:
 
Richard Benjamin as Harold Weiss, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Warren Munson as Man on train
William Farley as Conductor
Tanya as Oriental girl
Cloris Leachman as Rita Weiss
Lisa Cantor as Lily
Linnard Lane as Sandy
Harold Reynolds as Dr. Plymile
Joe Bernard as Max Levine
John Neris as Music teacher
Peter Hobbs as Dr. Worthington Payne
Jean Allison as Florence Maguire
 
The humerous story of a professor (Richard Benjamin) who decides to take a cross-country road trip during the height of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis , rather than wait to die. The professor drives from Long Island to Los Angeles, stopping in Las Vegas along the way. As he travels, he assumes different humerous identities in his interactions with the people he meets. The story is captured in a number of short episodes, as the professor acts out his fantasies with increasing abandon.