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40 Pounds of Trouble (1962)Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl. Director:Norman JewisonWriter:Marion Hargrove |
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Steve McCluskey
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| Suzanne Pleshette | ... | ||
| Larry Storch | ... |
Floyd
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| Howard Morris | ... |
Julius
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| Edward Andrews | ... |
Herman
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Stubby Kaye | ... |
Cranston
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| Warren Stevens | ... |
Swing
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Mary Murphy | ... |
Liz McCluskey
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| Kevin McCarthy | ... |
Louie Blanchard
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| Karen Steele | ... |
Bambi
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| Tom Reese | ... |
Bassett /
Uncle Norman
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Steve Gravers | ... |
Daytime
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Paul Comi | ... |
Deputy Sheriff Cavanaugh
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Ford Rainey | ... |
Judge
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Gregg Palmer | ... |
Howard Piper
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Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.
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31 December 1962 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
20 Quilos de Confusão See more »Filming Locations:
Disneyland Park, Disneyland Resort - 1600 S. Disneyland Drive, Anaheim, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Penny Piper: They can if they're the manager.
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Lyrics by Sydney Shaw
Music by Mort Lindsey
Sung by Suzanne Pleshette (uncredited)
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First film allowed to shoot inside Disneyland. See more »Goofs
Steve makes a phone call from a booth located on the path between Tomorrowland and Main Street. In the scene where the detective chases Steve through the same area, the phone booth is not there. See more »Quotes
Steve McCluskey: Nobody can sleep fifteen hours.Penny Piper: They can if they're the manager.
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"If You"Lyrics by Sydney Shaw
Music by Mort Lindsey
Sung by Suzanne Pleshette (uncredited)
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Nothing of earth-shattering significance here, but Tony Curtis is an ace in his role as McCluskey (do you buy him as a chip off the old Blarney Stone? Not I), a workaholic, alimony-dodging, anal-retentive manager of a casino who seems to be frenetically sleepwalking through his life -- until the blase munchkin of a destitute gambler is left to his care. The beautiful Pleshette, who plays convincingly (albeit not as a singer) as a slumming singer and the casino owner's niece, slides conveniently into place as the mother figure of this atypical family unit.
The little girl is mildly funny and already a little world-weary in a manner only a screenwriter might make a child, thanks to her old man saddled by gambling debts and a life bouncing from one casino hotel room to the next. She seems to handle herself a little too expertly no matter what life throws her, but has a tender side that tenderizes Curtis' heart and sets up a few too many close-ups of Curtis smiling sweetly at the wee bairn. Still, she doesn't wisecrack too hard and manages a few good and funny moments on camera.
When the trio lights off to Disneyland - and to California, the epicenter of earthquakes and his mounting legal troubles - this sets up a fun series of scrambles around Uncle Walt's dreamscape to avoid arrest from a bumbling cop who strangely seems to be at the beck-and-call of McCluskey's vindictive ex-wife and her attorney.
The ending is no surprise, but, then again, that's what we all tend to like in light-hearted movies of this type and era. A nice, fun movie to rent and spend a lazy afternoon watching.