The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)

An employee at Diner's Club issues a credit card to a well-known mobster and has to retrieve it in order to keep his job.

Director:

Frank Tashlin

Writers:

William Peter Blatty (screenplay), William Peter Blatty (story),

Stars:

Danny Kaye, Cara Williams, Martha Hyer

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Danny Kaye	...	Ernest Klenk
Cara Williams	...	Sugar Pye
Martha Hyer	...	Lucy
Telly Savalas	...	Foots Pulardos
Everett Sloane	...	Mr. Martindale
Kaye Stevens	...	Bea Frampton
Howard Caine	...	Claude Bassanio
George Kennedy	...	George
Jay Novello	...	Mooseghian
Ann Morgan Guilbert	...	Ella Trask
Ronald Long	...	Minister

Storyline

An employee at Diner's Club issues a credit card to a well-known mobster and has to retrieve it in order to keep his job.

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Plot Keywords:

diner's club | mobster | credit card | clerk | mexico | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 May 1963 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

Der Mann vom Diners Club

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dena Productions, Ampersand

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min 91 min (Cinemax)

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The name of the German Shepherd dog for whom Ernest Klenk (Danny Kaye) approves a Diners' Club card is Maurice Baskerville, a likely reference to the famous Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles", written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Goofs

In the closing chase scene, when the boss pulls away from the church, several crew members are reflected in the side of the car, including someone wearing very white shoes.

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Quotes

Spinster: There's a dumb body in my dead waiter!

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Connections

Featured in Electric Money (2001)

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Soundtracks

"There Goes That Song Again"
(1944) (uncredited)
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Played in the score and partially sung by Cara Williams

User Reviews

It's as if Danny Kaye was making a Jerry Lewis film!

This film represents the lasts starring theatrical film made by Danny Kaye. Soon, he'd make his mark on TV--with his popular show and a few assorted television movies. And, because it's the last, you'd hope it would be among his best...which it isn't. Is it worth seeing? Read on...

Danny plays a schnook named Ernest Klenk and pretty much everything he does ends up exploding or breaking. It's a shame, as he wants to marry his long-time girlfriend but just when he things he's got enough money and job security to make a go of it, something stupid happens and the wedding is postponed. There also is an evil gangster (Telly Savalas) who wants to fake his own death--and guess who has a weird anomaly which would make him the perfect candidate to murder in place of the gangster?

If you are used to seeing Danny Kaye singing, dancing and doing comedy, you may be in for a little shock. There's no singing nor dancing and the sort of comedy he does is nothing much like the usual Danny Kaye humor. In many ways, it really reminds me of a Jerry Lewis film from the same era--where the leading man is a screw-up, there are lots of sight gags and the comic mugs A LOT for the camera. A great example of this are the scenes where Kaye is around computers--where he twitches and gesticulates like he's having some sort of seizure. Funny? Not in the least. And, after seeing it, I can see why he stuck to television.