The author of a best-selling fishing guide is actually incredibly inexperienced when it comes to the sport, which causes mayhem when he is entered into a competition.
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Title: Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Rock Hudson | ... | Roger Willoughby | |
| Paula Prentiss | ... | Abigail Page | |
| Maria Perschy | ... | Isolde 'Easy' Mueller | |
| John McGiver | ... | William Cadwalader | |
| Charlene Holt | ... | Tex Connors | |
| Roscoe Karns | ... | Major Phipps | |
| James Westerfield | ... | Policeman | |
| Norman Alden | ... | John Screaming Eagle | |
| Forrest Lewis | ... | Skaggs | |
| Regis Toomey | ... | Bagley | |
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Tyler McVey | ... | Customer Bush |
| Kathie Browne | ... | Marcia | |
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Roger Willoughby is considered to be a leading expert on sports fishing. He's written books on the subject and is loved by his customers in the sporting goods department at Abercrombie and Fitch, where he works. There's only one problem however: he's never been fishing in his life. When the store owner enters him in a fishing contest, mayhem ensues. Written by garykmcd
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Filming began late in 1962 but the movie was not released until 1964. See more »Goofs
When Abigail cuts the cast off Roger's arm with the circular saw, she is holding and running the saw backwards. See more »Quotes
Roger Willoughby: Did you take a special course in blackmail, or is it just a natural talent?See more »
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Rock Hudson stars as a man posing as a fishing expert who basically passes on information from one customer to another. He has written a best selling book on fishing and no one knows he's a fraud, not even his fiancée. He is shocked to learn his boss has entered him into a fishing contest and doesn't know what to do until Paula Prentiss and Maria Perschy tell him they got him involved and are going to teach him to fish. This is a pretty good comedy but it does have a little too much slapstick in it. There are some scenes that are taken from Bringing Up Baby and Howard Hawks did ask Cary Grant to be in this movie but he said no because he didn't want to be seen on screen with women who a lot younger then he was. The movie is two hours long and goes by pretty quickly.