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Portly, tight-jawed John McGiver had intended to become a professional actor upon graduating from Catholic University in Washington D.C., but he became an English teacher at New York's Christopher Columbus High School instead. One day in the... more
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman Jon Voight
Tags: Buddy Film Urban Drama Drama
Length: 113min
Based on a James Leo Herlihy novel, British director John Schlesinger's first American film dramatized the small hopes, dashed dreams, and unlikely friendship of two late '60s lost souls. Dreaming of an easy life as a fantasy cowboy stud, cheerful...
Tags: Horror Comedy Comedy Horror
Length: 100min
In this spooky comedy, a couple and their adolescent son move into a quiet New England summer cottage. Soon their arrival, a series of strange and increasingly destructive occurrences begin to happen. Not believing in poltergeists, the puzzled parents...
Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Cast: Jerry Lewis Frank Tashlin
Length: 90min
This frantic comedy finds Raymond (Jerry Lewis) working in a department store. Mr. Tuttle (John McGiver) is the watchful owner, whose outspoken wife Phoebe (Agnes Moorehead) makes no secret about her feelings that Raymond is an incompetent boob....
Cast: Dick Van Dyke
Length: 102min
When an aging philanthropist falls on hard times, her butler starts to rob the rich so that she can keep on giving to the poor in this comedy. Claude Fitzwilliam (Dick Van Dyke), known to his friends as "Fitzwilly," works as a butler for Victoria...
Cast: Walter Matthau Eddie Albert
Tags: Comedy
Length: 93min
Lawyer Dean Martin's gambling habit is beginning to get on the nerves of his wife Lana Turner. To keep the money in the family, Lana talks Dino's law partner Eddie Albert into acting as Martin's bookie. Not only does this plan not work, but it also...
Cast: Billy Wilder Gary Cooper Audrey Hepburn Maurice Chevalier
Tags: Romance Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 126min
Gary Cooper more or less repeats his international-roue characterization from 1938's Bluebeard's Eighth Wife for the 1957 romantic comedy Love in the Afternoon (both films were co-scripted by Billy Wilder, who also directed the latter picture). Audrey...
Cast: Doris Day Paul Lynde
Tags: Spy Film Slapstick Action Comedy Spy Comedy
Length: 110min
The Glass Bottom Boat is hardly a high point in the careers of star Doris Day and director Frank Tashlin, though it is a better-than-usual example of that pure-'60s genre, the "spy spoof." Day plays Jennifer Nelson, a PR worker at NASA in Florida. She...
Cast: Jane Fonda George Roy Hill
Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy
Length: 112min
This was the first feature-length film directed by the very successful George Roy Hill. Based on a Tennessee Williams' novel, this standard comedy-drama focuses on two married couples who are both having a hard time of it, at least for now. The first...
Cast: Rock Hudson Howard Hawks Henry Mancini
Tags: Slapstick Screwball Comedy Comedy
Length: 121min
Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) is a super salesman of sporting goods who sells fishing equipment but knows nothing about the sport. Roger's boss Cadwalader (John McGiver) gets an idea from publicity director Abigail (Paula Prentiss) to enter him in a...
Cast: Carl Reiner Debbie Reynolds
Tags: Black Comedy Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 100min
Any murder mystery featuring a pigeon named Herman can be trusted to offer more mirth than mayhem and that is the case with this upbeat film by director George Marshall. Glenn Ford stars as Elliott Nash, a television playwright married to Nell (Debbie...
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