John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
A Wild Whirl of Wacky Fun!
96 min
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.
- Release date
- March 24, 1965
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $4,000,000
Trailer
Cast
- Shirley MacLaine as Jenny Ericson
- Peter Ustinov as King Fawz
- Richard Crenna as John Goldfarb
- Jim Backus as Miles Whitepaper
- Scott Brady as Coach Sakalakis
- Fred Clark as Heinous Overreach
- Wilfrid Hyde-White as Mustafa Guz
- Harry Morgan as Secretary of State Deems Sarajevo
- Patrick Adiarte as Prince Ammud
- Richard Deacon as Secretary of Defense Charles Maginot
Crew
- J. Lee Thompson · Director
- William Peter Blatty · Writer
- J. Lee Thompson · Producer
- Steve Parker · Producer
- John Williams · Composer
- Leon Shamroy · Cinematographer
- William B. Murphy · Editor