Robert Morley once was asked why he was in so many garbage pictures. To wit he replied, "For the money dear boy". One has to ask how come Morley missed John Goldfarb, Please Come Home because if there ever was a "for the money" picture this was it for so many others.
I doubt you will ever find as many talented people this side of the first Casino Royale film involved in such a disaster of a film. This is one unfunny Cold War satire with a rare laugh or two there. The laughs come at a bunch of people looking ridiculous.
The title role is played by Richard Crenna who was then trying to get a career going on the big screen at the time. He plays Wrong Way Goldfarb who was a famous college halfback made famous for running the wrong way covering the field at a college bowl game.
He hasn't improved his sense of direction any as he pilots his U-2 spy plane over the Middle East kingdom of Fawz and it comes down there with him taken alive.
When King Peter Ustinov learns who he is he decides to keep Crenna and make him an offer to coach a football team he's organizing for his son. He's already built a football stadium in the middle of the desert. The son Patrick Adiarte was kicked out of Notre Dame and off the football team. Why didn't he just buy Notre Dame?
This of course has set off a crisis in Washington because they want to get the plane back with Crenna as an afterthought. On the ground in Fawz is Shirley MacLaine as a reporter working a story she's gotten a whiff of. Maybe she smelled the script.
I thought Peter Ustinov looked especially ridiculous speaking in gibberish throughout. I'd love to know how he got into this, did he really need the money?
This one's a Cold War stinker.
I doubt you will ever find as many talented people this side of the first Casino Royale film involved in such a disaster of a film. This is one unfunny Cold War satire with a rare laugh or two there. The laughs come at a bunch of people looking ridiculous.
The title role is played by Richard Crenna who was then trying to get a career going on the big screen at the time. He plays Wrong Way Goldfarb who was a famous college halfback made famous for running the wrong way covering the field at a college bowl game.
He hasn't improved his sense of direction any as he pilots his U-2 spy plane over the Middle East kingdom of Fawz and it comes down there with him taken alive.
When King Peter Ustinov learns who he is he decides to keep Crenna and make him an offer to coach a football team he's organizing for his son. He's already built a football stadium in the middle of the desert. The son Patrick Adiarte was kicked out of Notre Dame and off the football team. Why didn't he just buy Notre Dame?
This of course has set off a crisis in Washington because they want to get the plane back with Crenna as an afterthought. On the ground in Fawz is Shirley MacLaine as a reporter working a story she's gotten a whiff of. Maybe she smelled the script.
I thought Peter Ustinov looked especially ridiculous speaking in gibberish throughout. I'd love to know how he got into this, did he really need the money?
This one's a Cold War stinker.