Boys' Night Out

Boys' Night Out (1962)

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Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.

Date of release
1962-06-21
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (31)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Michael Gordon

Casting

Interesting facts

Boys' Night Out is a 1962 American romantic comedy film starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and featuring Howard Duff, Janet Blair, Howard Morris, Patti Page, Anne Jeffreys, Jessie Royce Landis and Oscar Homolka. The picture was directed by Michael Gordon and was written by Ira Wallach based on a story by Arne Sultan and Marvin Worth.

Production

The film was a co-production by Filmways and Kim Novak's production company, Kimco. It was meant to be the first in a three-picture deal between Kimco and Filmways, but it was the only production. It was financed by Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures and was the first film he made in the US. They sold the film to MGM. Novak was paid a reported $500,000.

That's a picture that really started from a five page dirty joke that the writers sold to the producer. We didn't have censorship ratings at that point; a picture either got the seal of approval or it didn't. I was forced to clarify my ideas about that picture in a way that I think proved constructive. It forced me to recognise that the principal business is to expose certain aspects of human or social folly to ridicule.

Gig Young was offered a part but turned it down. Patti Page, cast in her third movie, later wrote she "was shocked to learn that producer Martin Ransohoff actually wanted me to gain twenty pounds for the role... so I could play a somewhat dowdy Southern wife... Given how much the press had loved to talk about my weight going up and down in the past, I was hardly keen to purposely plump up.

Garner wrote in his memoirs that Novak "was beautiful and she had a wonderful quality that audiences liked but she didn't know how to act. I think she was insecure because she was always running off the set to fix her face. She was more interested in her makeup than the script." Michael Gordon felt Garner "was so good in both of the films I did with him that it made me feel I was stealing the money I was paid." He thought Novak was "a nice gal,"…

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