The Honey Pot
| The Honey Pot | |
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Original film poster by Howard Terpning
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| Directed by | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Produced by | Charles K. Feldman |
| Screenplay by | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
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Mr. Fox of Venice by Frederick Knott The Evil of the Day by Thomas Sterling Volpone by Ben Jonson |
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| Music by | John Addison |
| Cinematography | Gianni di Venanzo |
| Edited by | David Bretherton |
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Famous Artists Productions
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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150 minutes (UK) 132 minutes (US) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Honey Pot, also known as The Honeypot, is a 1967 crime comedy-drama film written for the screen and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It stars Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, Capucine, Edie Adams, and Maggie Smith. The film was based on the play Mr. Fox of Venice by Frederick Knott, the novel The Evil of the Day by Thomas Sterling, and loosely on the 1606 play Volpone by Ben Jonson.
Struggling actor William McFly (Cliff Robertson) is hired by wealthy Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) to play his personal secretary for a practical joke. Pretending to be on his deathbed, Fox invites three former lovers to his Venetian palazzo for a final visit: penniless Princess Dominique (Capucine), fading movie star Merle McGill (Edie Adams), and Texas millionairess Mrs. Lone Star Crockett Sheridan (Susan Hayward). Accompanying Mrs. Sheridan is her spinster nurse, Sarah Watkins (Maggie Smith). By chance, each of the women brings Fox a timepiece as a present.
The three women warily size each other up. Mrs. Sheridan boldly announces that the others might as well go home, as she is Fox's common-law wife, and they can expect to inherit nothing. However, when Sarah returns from a late-night date with McFly, she finds her employer dead of an overdose of sleeping pills, an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Rizzi (Adolfo Celi) investigates.
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