Great things were expected from this film because director Stuart Rosenberg was teamed again with star Paul Newman for the first time since 'Cool Hand Luke'. But 'WUSA' and their two further films together, 'Pocket Money' and 'The Drowning Pool' were all commercial flops. 'WUSA' taking its name from the ultra-right wing New Orleans radio station where drunkard Newman talks his way into a job, is a political satire, but a poor and pretentious one at that. At times it looks like a travelogue as Newman and real-life wife Joanne Woodward, as the girl he picks up, exchange predictable dialogue while walking hand in hand through the city streets. Anthony Perkins is the redeeming factor, delivering a twitching, nervous performance as a trendy liberal/revolutionary surely related to Norman Bates from 'Psycho'.


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