Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 04/29/2003
SubTitles: English/French/Japanese
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD
Run Time: 113 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Cary Grant made his last film appearance before retiring from the screen in this agreeable piece of fluff based on the 1943 comedy
The More the Merrier, which dealt with the romantic complications inherent in the housing shortage in Washington D.C. during World War II. In
Walk, Don't Run, the story is updated to a housing shortage in Tokyo during the Olympic Games of 1964. British industrialist Sir William Rutland (
Cary Grant) arrives in Tokyo two days before the start of the games and cannot find any suitable accommodations. As a result, he answers an ad for an "apartment to share" and convinces the occupant, Christine Easton (
Samantha Eggar), to rent a room to him. The next day he meets the handsome Steve Davis (
Jim Hutton), a member of the United States Olympic walking team. Steve also needs a room and convinces Christine to take him on as a second tenant. After meeting Christine's pompous fiancé, Julius D. Haversack (
John Standing), Rutland begins to ply his matchmaking skills in an effort to get Christine and Steve to fall in love with each other.
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Cary's Swan Song.
Charles Walters, who directed such classic musicals like Meet Me in St. Louis, Easter Parade, High Society, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown now brings a brashy good-natured romantic comedy based on the book by Robert Russell and Frank Ross. Cary Grant gives the final performance of his illustrious career as a British industrialist, who arrives in Tokyo and shares with a beautiful young girl and an American Olympic runner, and he decides to play Cupid with his roommates. Also starring Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton, John Standing, Miiko Tako, Ted Hartley, Ben Aster, George Takei, Teru Shimada, and Lois Kjuchi. Sayonara, Cary.
;)
