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The Gazebo (1959)

Comedy | 100 minutes
3,10 29 votes

Genre: Comedy / Crime

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: George Marshall

Stars: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds and Carl Reiner

IMDb score: 6,8 (2.275)

Releasedate: 15 January 1960

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The Gazebo plot

"All the love, laughs and murderous fun of the Broadway smash hit!"

He writes mysteries for television, but now finds himself in trouble when he is blackmailed with pictures that could damage his wife's career. When his wife buys a dome for the garden and it turns out to be necessary to pour a cement foundation, he knows how to get rid of the blackmailer's corpse.

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Elliott Nash

Sam Thorpe

Mrs. Chandler

Harlow Edison

Lt. Jenkins

Miss Spence, Nash's Secretary

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Queno

  • 122 messages
  • 917 votes

Of all the Hollywood knick-knacks that come off the assembly line, in between at the weekend on the Belgian, still a humorous story

from the fifties. Black and white and from three-quarters of a century ago is indeed sometimes better to sneeze at.

The Gazebo works really well because it's everyday. An innocent housewife who buys an innocent gazebo for the garden ("Ah,

he spoils the view, it is better to move it anyway..").

With a busy husband who is a screenwriter by trade and also writes for the great Hitch.

It is the contrast of a murder being committed and an innocent gazebo that makes you laugh, and that with the constant

Elliott neurotics. Elliott shoots the blackmailer on his wife's behalf. At least that turns out not to be the case, what comes to mind

comes who lies in the foundation of the gazebo. A chain reaction of characters takes part (the contractor,

the cleaning lady with the high-pitched voice, his wife, a jealous Harlow, the thieves, the detectives) making it all

becomes crazy, with a chain of lies and excuses. And that complexity in an innocent character, especially because of his

constantly shown nervousness makes it hilarious.

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scorsese

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Good film about a man who thinks he is committing the perfect murder when he is blackmailed. Not exactly an original plot, but the execution is fine and the film is well constructed. Nice developments that make the film entertaining and the characters are also entertaining.

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avatar van clubsport

clubsport

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Nice crime comedy in which Ford convincingly plays the comedic role of a stressed husband who has buried the body of a blackmailer under his garden shed .
The film has to get going because at first it doesn't seem to be a comedy and it all starts quite seriously.

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