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Jun 24, 2006 Full Review A.H. Weiler New York Times Man's Favorite Sport?, the film's theme song has it, is girls. It certainly is not originality or comedy. It certainly is not originality or comedy.
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Man's Favorite Sport? is a 1964 American screwball comedy film starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss and directed and produced by Howard Hawks.Hawks intended the film to be an homage to his own 1938 screwball classic Bringing Up Baby, with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and unsuccessfully tried to get these stars to reprise their roles.
It's studio-bound to be sure, but it's stylish fun and features a very good supporting cast including John McGiver as Hudson's boss, Norman Alden (nearly stealing the film as John Screaming Eagle) and the fetching Maria Perschy as "Easy." The great music score is by Henry Mancini. 7/10. pretty good comedy from Hawks.
Man's Favorite Sport?: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, John McGiver. The author of a best-selling fishing guide is actually extremely inexperienced in the sport, which causes mayhem when he is entered into a competition.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Howard Hawks
- 1964-01-31
Aug 8, 2019 · Man’s Favorite Sport was meant to be a Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn reunion that never materialized. Because, of course, put together with Howard Hawks that only means one film — the most outrageous, cockamamie, frenzied escapade ever captured on celluloid — Bringing up Baby (1938). Rock Hudson and Maria Perschy (I still don’t ...
Hawks would make the film, Man's Favorite Sport? (1964), but not at Paramount, and not with Cary Grant. Grant's own career was winding down, and he was hesitant about committing to Man's Favorite Sport? Nearing sixty, the actor didn't like the idea of co-starring opposite three young actresses - Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy and Charlene Holt.
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