82% (3) Midnight Cowboy 113 min, R, [Drama] [John Schlesinger] [16 Jun 1969]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 79%, Rotten Tomatoes: 90%, Metacritic: 79%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 3 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 15 nominations.
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, John McGiver, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles
Writer: Waldo Salt (screenplay), James Leo Herlihy (based on the novel by)
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Plot: Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real 'hustler', he finds that he is the one getting 'hustled' until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial 'country cousin meets city cousin' relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend.
Rotten Tomatoes: A con man and a Texas hustler try to survive on the tough streets of New York.
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80% (2) Love in the Afternoon 130 min, Not Rated, [Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance] [Billy Wilder] [30 Jun 1957]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, John McGiver, Maurice Chevalier
Writer: Billy Wilder (screenplay), I.A.L. Diamond (screenplay), Claude Anet (novel)
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Plot: In Paris, detective Claude Chavasse is hired to follow a wife suspected of infidelity with the notorious American libertine Frank Flannagan. When the husband learns that his suspicions are accurate, he tells Claude of his plan to kill Flannagan. Claude's daughter Ariane overhears the threat and warns Frank of the coming trouble. She then plays the part of a worldly socialite with a list of conquests as long as Flannagan's. The bemused ladies' man returns to America the next day and Ariane, completely in love, follows his romantic escapades in the news. She sees him again in Paris the following year, and resumes her worldly guise, telling tales of former lovers when they meet at his hotel in the afternoon. Frank, amazed by the mystery girl and surprised to find himself jealous of her past, hires Claude to uncover more information about her. When the detective realizes what has happened, he asks Frank not to break his daughter's heart.
Rotten Tomatoes: An aging playboy hires a detective to locate a mysterious young woman.
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68% (2) Man's Favorite Sport? 120 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [13 Mar 1964]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 64%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: John McGiver, Maria Perschy, Paula Prentiss, Rock Hudson
Writer: Pat Frank (story "The Girl Who Almost Got Away"), John Fenton Murray, Steve McNeil
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Plot: Roger Willoughby is considered to be a leading expert on sports fishing. He's written books on the subject and is loved by his customers in the sporting goods department at Abercrombie and Fitch, where he works. There's only one problem however: he's never been fishing in his life. When the store owner enters him in a fishing contest, mayhem ensues.
Rotten Tomatoes: 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 fishing contest, and the inept angler has a series of comic consequences before he wins the contest with some help from a bear. When Roger admits that his winning the event was merely luck, he turns in the prize and loses his job. Roger eventually wins Abigail's heart and gets his job back. Howard Hawks directs this slapstick comedy with his typical flair -- witty dialogue and effective sight gags included.
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57% (2) The Glass Bottom Boat 110 min, Approved, [Comedy, Romance] [Frank Tashlin] [09 Jun 1966]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, Rotten Tomatoes: 50%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Arthur Godfrey, Doris Day, John McGiver, Rod Taylor
Writer: Everett Freeman
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Plot: Jennifer Nelson and Bruce Templeton meet when Bruce reels in her mermaid suit leaving Jennifer bottomless in the waters off Catalina Island. She later discovers that Bruce is the big boss at her work (a research lab). Bruce hires Jennifer to be his biographer - only to try and win her affections. However, there's a problem. Bruce's friend General Wallace Bleeker believes that Jennifer is a Russian spy, and he has her placed under surveillance. Then, when Jennifer catches on...Watch Out!
Rotten Tomatoes: When Jennifer Nelson is hired to work in a aerospace laboratory, she catches the attention of her boss, scientist Bruce Templeton. Bruce hires Jennifer to write his biography so he can spend more time with her, but their sneaky behavior causes people to think Jennifer is a Russian spy.
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54% (2) Who's Minding the Store? 90 min, Approved, [Comedy] [Frank Tashlin] [14 Dec 1963]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 40%, External Reviews
Actors: Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, John McGiver, Ray Walston
Writer: Frank Tashlin (screenplay), Harry Tugend (screenplay), Harry Tugend (story)
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Plot: Barbara is a very rich girl who falls in love with Norman Phiffier, a poor young man. She doesn't tell him who she really is and prepares to marry him. But, Mrs. Tuttle (Barbara's mother) doesn't want her daughter to mary such a poor man. So, she hires Norman at one of her big stores, and gives him the most difficult and disgusting works. She hopes that seeing Norman humiliated, Barbara will finally leave him. But things don't work exactly this way...
Rotten Tomatoes: 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. Barbara (Jill St. John) is the pretty elevator operator, and unknown to Raymond, the boss' daughter. Quimby (Ray Walston) is the floor manager who has more of an eye for the ladies than his job at the store. Raymond proceeds to wreck every department in the store, earning new positions with each mishap.
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69% (1) The Gazebo 100 min, [Comedy, Crime, Thriller] [George Marshall] [01 Jan 1960]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, External Reviews
Actors: Carl Reiner, Debbie Reynolds, Glenn Ford, John McGiver
Writer: George Wells (screen play), Alec Coppel (play), Myra Coppel (story), Alec Coppel (story)
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Plot: Television writer and director Elliott Nash and his wife Nell have a happy marriage. One day a blackmailer informs Elliott that he has nude photos of his wife Nell, taken when she was only 18 years old. The blackmailer, a certain Dan Shelby, threatens to ruin Nell's reputation and her Broadway stage career if Elliott refuses to pay a ransom. Elliott agrees to pay the blackmailer but the demands increase and Elliott becomes a nervous wreck and a workaholic in his attempt to earn more money for the blackmailer. Elliott even considers selling his house in order to raise the 25 thousand dollars the blackmailer demands. Nell is unaware of the blackmail scheme and often worries about Elliott's state of mind. In desperation, Elliott decides to lure the blackmailer to Elliott's home for a large final payment and kill him. But Elliott is no killer and his planning for the imminent premeditated murder is amateurish at best.
Rotten Tomatoes: Glenn Ford stars in this genial black comedy starring Glenn Ford as Elliot Nash, a successful television writer who is married to an equally successful Broadway star, Nell Nash (Debbie Reynolds). One day a blackmailer pays Elliot a visit. He claims to have in his possession nude photographs of Nell taken during her leaner years. Elliot decides the only way out is to kill the blackmailer. After the murder, Elliot hides the body in the ground where he is planning to build a gazebo. But after Elliot's gazebo is built, the body of the blackmailer is uncovered at another location; now Elliot has to figure out whose body is buried underneath his gazebo.
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67% (1) Fitzwilly 102 min, [Comedy, Romance] [Delbert Mann] [19 Apr 1968]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, External Reviews
Actors: Barbara Feldon, Dick Van Dyke, Edith Evans, John McGiver
Writer: Isobel Lennart (screenplay), Poyntz Tyler (based on a novel by)
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Plot: When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living. After Fitzwilly's mother died Miss Vicki helped raise him and he loves her like a mother and would do anything for her. With Fitzwilly's encouragement, Miss Vicki writes a "Dictionary for Dopes" which contains all possible phonetic spellings of a word, and gives the reader the correct one, and for that she needs a secretary. Juliet is the one who is hired, soon she is caught up in the intrigue and falls in love with Fitzwilly. They agree to carry out one more caper before they get married, to keep Miss Vicki comfortable for the rest of her days.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this comedy, a devoted butler, knowing that his elderly employer is in deep financial trouble, and knowing that she does not realize this, robs Gimbel's department store on Christmas Eve to keep her financially afloat.
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