John Goldfarb, Please Come Home
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1965 Theatrical Poster
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| Directed by | J. Lee Thompson |
| Produced by | Parker--Orchard Productions |
| Written by | William Peter Blatty |
| Starring |
Shirley MacLaine Peter Ustinov Richard Crenna |
| Music by | John Williams |
| Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
| Edited by | William B. Murphy |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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96 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,705,000 |
| Box office | $3,000,000 (US/ Canada rentals) |
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! is a 1965 comedy film based on the novel by William Peter Blatty published in 1963. The movie was directed by J. Lee Thompson.
The comic spoof of the Cold War was inspired by a May 1960 incident involving American Francis Gary Powers, a CIA operative whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking an international diplomatic incident. Blatty's tale concerns John "Wrong-Way" Goldfarb, a former college football star who once ran 95 yards for a touchdown in the wrong direction. Now a U-2 pilot, his plane malfunctions and crashes in the mythical Arab kingdom of Fawzia.
The country's leader threatens to turn him over to the Soviets unless he agrees to coach a football team. Jenny Ericson, the magazine journalist who made Goldfarb famous, is on an undercover assignment as a member of the King's harem, and when she discovers she was wrong in thinking the King is no longer romantically interested in his wives, she seeks help from Goldfarb. The King blackmails the U.S. Department of State into arranging an exhibition football game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and his own team from Fawz University. Jenny becomes a cheerleader and then the quarterback who scores the winning touchdown for Fawz University.
Blatty's book originally was written as a screenplay, but when no studios expressed interest in it, he reworked it as a novel, which was published by Doubleday (). The novel's success led Twentieth Century-Fox to acquire the film rights, and Blatty submitted his original script for a feature film directed by J. Lee Thompson.
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