Houseboat (film)
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Film poster for Houseboat
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| Directed by | Melville Shavelson |
| Produced by | Jack Rose |
| Written by | Melville Shavelson Jack Rose |
| Screenplay by | Betsy Drake |
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Cary Grant Sophia Loren Martha Hyer Paul Petersen Charles Herbert Harry Guardino |
| Music by | George Duning |
| Cinematography | Ray June |
| Edited by | Frank Bracht |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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109 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $4,000,000(domestic) |
Houseboat is a 1958 Technicolor romantic comedy VistaVision film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert, and Mimi Gibson. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original version of Yours, Mine and Ours (1968). The love theme "Almost In Your Arms", sung by Sam Cooke and "Bing! Bang! Bong!", sung by Loren, were written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
For several years, Tom Winters (Grant) has been estranged from his wife and their three children, David (Petersen), Elizabeth (Gibson), and Robert (Herbert). The film begins as he returns home from Europe shortly after his wife's death. The children want to stay in the country with their mother's wealthy family, including her parents and her sister Carolyn (Hyer), but Tom takes them to Washington, D.C., where he works in the US State Department.
The children resent their father, and, at an outdoor concert, Robert runs away. He is found by Cinzia Zaccardi (Loren). She too is running away and is enchanted by little "Roberto" and his harmonica. When she brings him back home, Tom offers her a job as a maid, unaware she is the daughter of a famous Italian orchestra conductor. She eventually accepts.
Carolyn, now divorced from her husband, offers Tom and the children her old guest house, which was supposed to be moved to a new foundation. However, while the guest house is being towed down the road, it is smashed by an Atlantic Coast Line passenger train after the tow-truck driver, Angelo Donatello (Guardino), flirts with Cinzia and accidentally hits Tom's car. Feeling guilty, Angelo sells Tom his leaky, run-down, old houseboat.
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