The Maltese Bippy

The Maltese Bippy is a 1969 comedy horror film, directed by Norman Panama and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

After their premises are busted by the authorities for non-payment of rent, the hapless pair become prime suspects in a nearby cemetery murder.

He begins to question whether he—or rather, his lycanthropic self—might be the culprit responsible for homicide in the neighborhood graveyard.

In The New York Times, film critic Vincent Canby wrote:[One] problem that I carried to The Maltese Bippy was an inability to distinguish between Rowan and Martin, something that hasn't mattered much on television where their duties are more or less interchangeable...

Television, the great leveler, has produced the ultimate comedy team, a pair of personalities of similar sex, height, weight and wit, which, I suppose, is the direction in which we've been heading ever since Martin and Lewis convinced us that comedy teams need not be physically grotesque—maybe one man should be slightly Italian and one man slightly Jewish, but not grotesque.