Walk Don't Run

Infobox Film
name = Walk Don't Run


caption = DVD Cover
director = Charles Walters
writer = Robert Russell
Frank Ross
starring = Cary Grant
Samantha Eggar
Jim Hutton
producer = Sol C. Siegel
distributor = Columbia Pictures
budget =
released = 29 June 1966 (USA)
runtime = 114 min.
language = English
imdb_id = 0061170

"Walk Don't Run" (sometimes titled as "Walk, Don't Run" in U.S. promotional materials), was a 1966 film comedy set in Tokyo during the Olympic Games in 1964. It marked the last appearance by Cary Grant in a feature film. It is a remake of the 1943 film "The More the Merrier".

Plot

Sir William Rutland (Grant) is an important English businessman who arrives in the city two days early and is greeted by the housing shortage caused by the Games. While at the British Embassy seeking help, he notices an apartment available card on the bulletin board and decides to check the place out. He finds himself at the residence of Christine Easton, (Samantha Eggar), who insists that it would be improper to take him in as a housemate—for while she forgot to advertise so, she naturally preferred a woman. Easton eventually lets Rutland stay - half because she is persuaded it is her patriotic duty to take him in and half because of Rutland’s own self-assured pushiness.

Rutland then sublets half of his half of the cramped space to American Olympian Steve Davis (Jim Hutton), in whom Rutland sees a younger version of himself. While Easton is less than thrilled with the arrangement, she has already spent Rutland's share of the rent. Rutland sets about playing matchmaker for the two young people, in spite of their disparate personalities and Easton’s engagement to boringly dependable British diplomat Julius P. Haversack (John Standing).

Davis repeatedly refuses to reveal what sport he is competing in. Rutland meddles in the young couple's romantic troubles. The movie culminates in his suddenly stripping down to his boxer shorts and a t-shirt so he can pretend to be a competitor and talk to race walker Davis during his event, trying to heal the breach between the young lovers.

Trivia

In the movie, Cary Grant makes references to other movies he has appeared in. While making coffee, he whistles the tune of the theme from "Charade", and while showering, he sings the theme to "An Affair to Remember".

Bibliography

Reid, John Howard. "Walk, Don't Run." "Reid's Film Index", no. 36 (1998): 178-181.

External links

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