The Gazebo (1959)
All the love, laughs and murderous fun of the Broadway smash hit!
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.
- Date of release
- 1959-12-18
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (39)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Director
- George Marshall
Casting
- Glenn Ford — Elliott Nash
- Debbie Reynolds — Nell Nash
- Carl Reiner — Harlow Edison
- John McGiver — Sam Thorpe
- Mabel Albertson — Mrs. Chandler
- Doro Merande — Matilda
- Bert Freed — Joe Jenkins
- Martin Landau — The Duke
- Robert Ellenstein — Ben
- Dick Wessel — Louis
- Helen Kleeb — Miss Spence (uncredited)
- Jon Lormer — Dr. Weiner (uncredited)
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1
The Gazebo is a 1959 American black comedy CinemaScope film about a married couple who are being blackmailed. It was based on the 1958 play of the same name by Alec Coppel and directed by George Marshall. Helen Rose was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White. It is also the last film released by MGM in the 1950s.
Production
Film rights to the play were bought for $250,000.
A comic subplot involves Alfred Hitchcock inadvertently assisting Elliott in a murder plan via telephone, while checking on a script Nash is writing for him. The play's author Alec Coppel had written such a script for Hitchcock's film Vertigo.
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