Critic's Choice Poster
MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Up 6,699 this week

Critic's Choice (1963)

APPROVED 100 min  -  Comedy  -   13 April 1963 (USA)
5.6
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 5.6/10 from 343 users  
Reviews: 10 user | 3 critic

Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good... See full summary »

Director:

Don Weis

Writers:

Ira Levin (play), Jack Sher
Watch Trailer
 Loading+Watchlist

Watch now

Buy it from Amazon »

Related Lists

image of title
a list of 211 titles by abcj-2 created 6 months ago
 
image of title
a list of 10 titles by SweetHotAngel created 2 weeks ago
 
image of title
a list of 1,028 titles by aimalac91748 created 5 days ago
 
image of title
a list of 337 titles by ptalbott53 created 5 months ago
 
image of title
a list of 1,655 titles by aimalac91748 created 8 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Pre-Order the Kindle Fire
Edit

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Bob Hope ...
Lucille Ball ...
Marilyn Maxwell Marilyn Maxwell ...
Rip Torn ...
Jessie Royce Landis Jessie Royce Landis ...
Charlotte Orr aka Charlie
John Dehner John Dehner ...
S.P. Champlain
Jim Backus Jim Backus ...
Dr. William Von Hagedorn
Ricky Kelman Ricky Kelman ...
Dorothy Green Dorothy Green ...
Mrs. Margaret Champlain
Marie Windsor Marie Windsor ...
Sally Orr
Joseph Gallison Joseph Gallison ...
Philip 'Phil' Yardley (as Evan McCord)
Joan Shawlee Joan Shawlee ...
Marge Orr
Richard Deacon Richard Deacon ...
Harvey Rittenhouse
Jerome Cowan Jerome Cowan ...
Joe Rosenfield
Donald Losby Donald Losby ...
Geoffrey Von Hagedorn
Edit

Storyline

Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Hope must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage. Based on the Broadway play by Ira Levin. Written by laird-3  

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis

Plot Keywords:

Director | Psychologist | New York City | Theater Critic | Jealousy  | See more »

Genres:

Comedy

Edit

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

(USA) See more »

Also Known As:

I proti nyhta tou gamou See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros. Pictures See more »
Show detailed company contact information on IMDbPro »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
See full technical specs »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

The collage of stylized posters for Broadway plays (The Music Man, Life With Father, Fanny, Gypsy, Camelot) that appeared under the opening credits, were all productions that had (or in the case of Camelot, would later be) filmed by Warner Bros. See more »

Quotes

John Ballantine: For the record, Sisters Three was written by Angela Ballantine, directed by Dion Kapakos, and produced by mistake.
See more »

Connections

Referenced in "What's My Line?: Episode dated 5 May 1963" (1963) See more »