The Steagle (1971)

Directed by Paul Sylbert
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, Charter Entertainment)

Richard Benjamin is a quirky English lit professor with vivid fantasies about playing baseball, among other things. He comes home every day to the suburbs, apparently indifferent to wife Cloris Leachman. It's the early 60s, and JFK comes on the radio to announce the Cuban missile crisis. Benjamin reacts by letting his fantasies come to life. He starts by telling another professor what he really thinks of him. He has an affair with another one. He hops on an airplane an adopts different personalities on a cross-country trip: wealthy gambler, movie producer, the real Andy Hardy. In Vegas he meets up with Chill Wills, who is great as a slightly eccentric ex-movie cowboy.