John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

Name: John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1965-03-24
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Rating: 5.30
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus

– Two Americans (Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna), stranded in the mideastern country of Fawzia, help..

Type:

Movie

Rating:

5.30 / 10

Duration:

One Hour and 36 Minutes

Release Year:

1965

Two Americans (Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna), stranded in the mideastern country of Fawzia, help an Arab leader (Peter Ustinov) build a football team so it can play and hopefully beat Notre Dame. Director J. Lee Thompson's once-highly-controversial 1965 comedy also features Scott Brady, Jim Backus, Charles Lane, Jerome Cowan, Fred Clark, Wilfred Hyde-White, Harry Morgan, Telly Savalas, Richard Deacon, Jackie Coogan, Jerry Orbach, Barbara Bouchet, Patrick Adiarte, Irene Tsu and Angela Douglas.

Story Timeline:

1960s

Producing Country:

USA

Filming Locations:

Middle East, Indiana

Genre:

Comedy

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965) - Trailer

Release Date:

24 Mar 1965

Language:

English

Directed by:

J. Lee Thompson

Story Written By:

William Peter Blatty

Main Actors:

Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus

Plot:

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 (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.

Production Company:

20th Century Fox Film Corporation

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

5.3/10