Do Not Disturb (1965 film)
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Directed by | Ralph Levy George Marshall |
Screenplay by | Richard L. Breen Milt Rosen |
Based on | Some Other Love play by William Fairchild |
Produced by | Martin Melcher Aaron Rosenberg |
Starring | Doris Day Rod Taylor |
Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
Edited by | Robert L. Simpson |
Music by | Lionel Newman Alexander Courage |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | December 22, 1965 |
Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3.89 million[1] |
Box office | $8,000,000[2] |
Do Not Disturb is a DeLuxe Color CinemaScope (1965) romantic comedy film directed by Ralph Levy, starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor as Janet and Mike Harper, a married couple who relocate to England when Mike is transferred by the company for which he works.[3]
Plot[]
American couple Mike and Janet Harper (Rod Taylor and Doris Day) move to England for Mike's work, a company that deals in textiles and fashions. Mike wants them to live in a flat in the heart of London, but Janet, who is not a big-city girl, instead finds them a house thirty miles outside London in Kent, which means that Mike has to commute into town by train. For convenience, Mike often stays in one of the company's flats in town rather than go home. This commuting situation makes Janet feel even more neglected than she already did.
Janet believes Mike may be having an affair with his assistant, Claire Hackett (Maura McGiveney). Janet's beliefs are fueled by the Harpers' busybody landlady, Vanessa Courtwright (Hermione Baddeley), who thinks Janet can play Mike's game by entering into an affair of her own, whether it be real or made-up. It has the potential to be real with the arrival of the Italian man Paul Bellari (Sergio Fantoni), an antiques dealer Janet hires to decorate the house. Although neither Mike nor Janet had any initial thoughts of cheating on the other, Claire and Paul may have thoughts of their own, especially when all four are thrown into one compromising position after another.[4]
Cast[]
- Doris Day as Janet Harper
- Rod Taylor as Mike Harper
- Hermione Baddeley as Vanessa Courtwright
- Sergio Fantoni as Paul Bellari
- Reginald Gardiner as George Simmons
- Maura McGiveney as Claire Hackett
- Aram Katcher as Culkos
- Leon Askin as Willie Langsdorf
- Lisa Perav as Alicia Petrova
- Michael Romanoff as Delegate
- Albert Carrier as Claude Reynard
- Barbara Morrison as Mrs. Ordley
- Dick Winslow as One-Man Band / Accordion Player
- Raquel Welch as Woman in lobby
- Britt Ekland as Party Girl
Production[]
During filming Ralph Levy came down with a virus and George Marshall had to step in as director. This caused the film to finish behind schedule.[5]
Reception[]
The film had admissions of 10,730 in France.[6]
According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $7,300,000 in rentals to break even and made $5,275,000, meaning it made a loss.[7]
Novelization[]
Slightly in advance of the film's release, as was the custom of the era, a paperback novelization of the film was published by Dell Books. The author was renowned crime and western novelist Marvin H. Albert, who also made something of a cottage industry out of movie tie-ins. He seems to have been the most prolific screenplay novelizer of the late '50s through mid '60s, and, during that time, the preeminent specialist at light comedy.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p254
- ^ "Do Not Disturb, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
- ^ "Do Not Disturb (1965) - Ralph Levy | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie. Retrieved Jul 22, 2019.
- ^ "Do Not Disturb (1965) - IMDb". Retrieved Jul 22, 2019 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ Stephen Vagg, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood (, 2010) p. 114
- ^ French Box office for 1966 at Box Office Story
- ^ Silverman, Stephen M (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox. L. Stuart. p. 324.
External links[]
- English-language films
- 1965 films
- 1965 romantic comedy films
- American films
- American romantic comedy films
- Films set in England
- Films directed by Ralph Levy
- Films scored by Lionel Newman
- 20th Century Fox films
- Adultery in films