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31 December 1962 (USA)
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Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl. | add synopsis
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Casino
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Disneyland
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Horse Racing
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Ex Wife
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Adoption
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1 win
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1 nomination
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"Fiddler" director Jewison honored with career award
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Just a fun little movie
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Tony Curtis | ... | Steve McCluskey | |
| Suzanne Pleshette | ... | Chris Lockwood | |
| Larry Storch | ... | Floyd | |
| Howard Morris | ... | Julius | |
| Edward Andrews | ... | Herman | |
| Stubby Kaye | ... | Cranston | |
| Warren Stevens | ... | Swing | |
| Mary Murphy | ... | Liz McCluskey | |
| Kevin McCarthy | ... | Blanchard | |
| Karen Steele | ... | Bambi | |
| Tom Reese | ... | Bassett / Uncle Norman | |
| Steve Gravers | ... | Daytime | |
| Paul Comi | ... | Cavanaugh | |
| Ford Rainey | ... | Judge | |
| Gregg Palmer | ... | Piper |
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Forty Pounds of Trouble (USA) (alternative spelling)
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106 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Continuity: 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.
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Bernie Friedman:
[at custody hearing] Well Judge, you can pass the buck up and down and back and forth, but when it gets to Bernie the butcher it don't go not further.
Judge: Is that what they call you? Bernie the butcher? Why?
Bernie Friedman: 37 years in the meat packing business, what're they gonna call me, Bernie the baker?
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Judge: Is that what they call you? Bernie the butcher? Why?
Bernie Friedman: 37 years in the meat packing business, what're they gonna call me, Bernie the baker?
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Referenced in "Private Screenings: Norman Jewison" (2007)
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What's the Scene
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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.