The Glass Bottom Boat
- This article is about the 1966 movie. For the actual type of boat, see Glass bottom boat.
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| Directed by | Frank Tashlin |
| Produced by | Everett Freeman Martin Melcher |
| Written by | Everett Freeman |
| Starring | Doris Day Rod Taylor Arthur Godfrey Dom DeLuise |
| Music by | Frank De Vol |
| Editing by | John McSweeney, Jr. |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | June 9, 1966 |
| Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $9.2 million (Per Variety, May 4, 1983) |
The Glass Bottom Boat is an 1966 American romantic comedy movie directed by Frank Tashlin; it is also considered by some people to be musical entertainment. This movie features Doris Day and Rod Taylor as the main entertainers, with assistance from actors Arthur Godfrey and Paul Lynde. It is also known as The Spy in Lace Panties.
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[edit] Plot
Axel Nordstrom manages a glass-bottom boat tourist operation in the waters of Santa Catalina Island, California. His widowed daughter, Jennifer Nelson, occasionally helps by donning a mermaid's costume and swimming underneath his boat for the passengers' amusement.
One day, Jennifer accidentally meets Bruce Templeton when his fishing hook snags her costume. He reels in the bottom half of her mermaid costume, leaving the irate Jennifer floating in the water without pants. Jennifer later discovers that Bruce is the main manager of her part-time place of employment, an aerospace research laboratory.
Mr. Templeton later sees Jennifer again at work and recognizes her, and with a hidden purpose, he hires her for a new full-time assignment: to be his "biographer" and to write his life story. His hidden purpose is to make an attempt to win Jennifer's affections. There is a problem. The laboratory's security chief, Homer Cripps, concludes that Jennifer is a Soviet spy, and to prove his suspicions, he has Jennifer surveilled. When she learns of the notion, Jennifer disproves the bumbling Cripps.
[edit] Production
Shooting partly took place on Catalina Island.
[edit] Cast
- Doris Day - Jennifer Nelson
- Rod Taylor - Bruce Templeton
- Arthur Godfrey - Axel Nordstrom
- John McGiver - Ralph Goodwin
- Paul Lynde - Homer Cripps
- Edward Andrews - Gen. Wallace Bleecker
- Eric Fleming - Edgar Hill
- Dom DeLuise - Julius Pritter
- Elisabeth Fraser - Nina Bailey
- Dick Martin - Zack Molloy
- George Tobias* - Norman Fenimore
- Alice Pearce* - Mabel Fenimore
- Ellen Corby - Anna Miller
- Dee J. Thompson - Donna
*Pearce and Tobias play an inquisitive wife and her disinterested husband, in roles not unlike the ones they played at the time on the television series Bewitched.
Robert Vaughn, famous at the time for playing "Napoleon Solo" on the TV series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., makes a very brief appearance in a non-speaking role.
[edit] Reception
The movie was an attempt to appeal to both Day's traditional fans and a younger audience. It was a success financially.[1] She followed it with the 1967 movie Caprice with the same director and a similar scenario but it was a critical and commercial failure.
[edit] DVD
The DVD of The Glass Bottom Boat (published during 2005) includes three vintage featurettes (Catalina Island, Every Girl's Dream, and NASA), as well as the Oscar-Winning cartoon The Dot and the Line.
[edit] References
- ^ Slifkin p.43
[edit] Bibliography
- Slifkin, Irv. VideoHound's groovy movies: far-out films of the psychedelic era. Visible Ink Press, 2004.
[edit] External links
- The Glass Bottom Boat at the Internet Movie Database
- The Glass Bottom Boat at AllRovi
- Boat used in film sinks off coast of California (2006)
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