8-1-2020 Movie Night with PNF
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M O V I E . . . S H O R T
No short film this week
M O V I E . . F E A T U R E
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965), 96 minutes
Comedy | Parody
No short film this week
M O V I E . . F E A T U R E
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965), 96 minutes
Comedy | Parody
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz (Sir Peter Ustinov), soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson (Shirley MacLaine), and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Writer: William Peter Blatty
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, Richard Crenna, jim backus, Harry Morgan
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965) - IMDb
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!: Directed by J. Lee Thompson. With Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus. During the Cold War, John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz (Sir...
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Holy Haram that’s an alluring marketing poster! I especially like the duality of Ustinov’s reaction to the dancer...
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Peter Ustinov plays a character unlike any of his later roles. He is great in this movie.
A great ensemble cast, with some of the best character actors of the day, including Harry (Col. Potter) Morgan, Richard (Mel Cooley) Deacon, Charles (Homer Bedloe) Lang, and Dick (Mr Whipple) Wilson. My favorite in the film is Wilfrid Hyde-White, the distinguished British actor who plays an expat advisor to the King.