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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24 March 1965 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! See more »Filming Locations:
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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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Notre Dame University got a court injunction to delay the release of this movie, claiming Twentieth Century Fox had "knowingly and illegally misappropriated, diluted, and commercially exploited for their private profit the names, symbols, football team, prestige, high reputation, and goodwill" of the university. After three months of court battles, the studio won out. 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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Richard Crenna plays a U-2 spy plane pilot too stupid to find Russia and who runs out of fuel and crashes in what must be Saudi Arabia.(This is vaguely reminiscent of the Francis Gary Powers story of several years earlier, although he ended up in Moskow). Shirley Maclaine ends up in a harem. Although frenetic and wild, this movie is filled with smarmy sex jokes, comedy on the level of a burlesque house, and offensive ethnic stereotypes; the Arabs are the only group that can still be insulted publicly. Peter Ustinov, always marvelous, was admittedly funny as the Arab king. I suppose this vulgar movie, ripped without mercy by critics at the time, will appeal to the same thirteen year-old boys who like the slob humor of Adam Sandler or Michael Myers, but for adults it's "no sale"! John Goldfarb DON'T come home!