During the Cold War, John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz (Sir Peter Ustinov), soon ...
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Shirley MacLaine | ... | Jenny Ericson | |
| Peter Ustinov | ... | King Fawz | |
| Richard Crenna | ... | John Goldfarb | |
| Jim Backus | ... | Miles Whitepaper | |
| Scott Brady | ... | Coach Sakalakis | |
| Fred Clark | ... | Heinous Overreach | |
| Wilfrid Hyde-White | ... | Mustafa Guz | |
| Harry Morgan | ... | Secretary of State Deems Sarajevo | |
| Patrick Adiarte | ... | Prince Ammud | |
| Richard Deacon | ... | Secretary of Defense Charles Maginot | |
| Jerome Cowan | ... | Ambassadaor Brinkley | |
| Leon Askin | ... | Samir | |
| David Lewis | ... | Stottle Cronkite | |
| Milton Frome | ... | Air Force General | |
| Charles Lane | ... | 'Strife' Magazine Editor | |
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During the Cold War, John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz (Sir Peter Ustinov), soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson (Shirley MacLaine), and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.
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Mandy - Harem Girl: Ask? He didn't 'ask' me to do anything. He's the king.
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Music by John Williams (as Johnny Williams)
Lyrics by Don Wolf
Sung by Shirley MacLaine during the opening credits
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According to Patricia Bosworth's 1978 biography, Montgomery Clift was offered the male lead in this movie, but turned it down. See more »Goofs
When Shirley first presents herself to the king she is fearful he will "make his move.on her" so she dresses herself to be as undesirable as possible and throws herself on his bed. The next three shots have her legs crossed right over left, then left over right, them back to right over left in quick succession. See more »Quotes
Jenny Ericson: What did he ask you to do?Mandy - Harem Girl: Ask? He didn't 'ask' me to do anything. He's the king.
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John Goldfarb, Please Come HomeMusic by John Williams (as Johnny Williams)
Lyrics by Don Wolf
Sung by Shirley MacLaine during the opening credits
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24 March 1965 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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"John Goldfarb, Please Come Home" just might be my all-time favorite movie. I first saw it when I was about 10 and made sure to check it out whenever it ran in those pre-cable days. As a middle-ager who picked up a MAD magazine/Stan Freberg-style sense of humor at age 6 and never outgrew it, "John Goldfarb" covered all the bases- whoops, this was a football movie! The great Peter Ustinov truly carried it as the goofy, model-train-obsessed sheik, and the closing football game was Marx Bros. quality. This one's got everything a fan of pre-"Saturday Night Live" satire can ask for, plus it had Shirley MacLaine before she went into orbit. A young John Williams did the funny score (including the Notre Dame fight song played belly-dancer style). I was just the right age to appreciate the presence of sitcom regulars like Crenna and Backus (I still love "Gilligan"). I'd give anything to find "John Goldfarb" on video. And the kicker? It was written by William Peter Blatty, who scared the daylights out of us with "The Exorcist" a decade later! I prefer this Blatty, thank you. "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home"- the perfect off-the-wall movie for MAD/ Freberg/"Gilligan"/Marx fans of all ages. If you know and love this picture, you're on my A-list for life!