Walk Don't Run

Walk Don't Run (1966)

Run, don't walk to see Walk, Don't Run.

During the housing shortage of the 1964 Summer Olympic Games, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.

Date of release
1966-06-29
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (88)
Runtime
1h 54m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Charles Walters

Casting

Interesting facts

Walk, Don't Run is a 1966 American romantic comedy film directed by Charles Walters, and starring Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, and Jim Hutton. It follows a travelling industrialist visiting Tokyo, as he shares accommodation with a male athlete and a female apartment tenant during the 1964 Summer Olympics. The film is a remake of the 1943 film The More the Merrier. The title stems from the basic rule of racewalking: that competitors must not run at any point.

Production

Filming locations were at the Hotel Okura Tokyo, Embassy of the United Kingdom, Tokyo, and Yoyogi National Gymnasium.

Samantha Eggar had just made The Collector and this was her first Hollywood comedy.

After filming, Grant retired from acting to focus on raising his daughter Jennifer. He died in 1986. Filmink argued the film "doesn’t have much of a reputation (in part, one suspects, because people resent the fact that it was Grant’s last movie), but it was quite popular."

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