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What would you do if a blackmailer showed up peddling nudie pictures of your sweet wife? Why, plug the scoundrel and bury him under the backyard gazebo, of course! Delightful screen farceurs Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds are up to their corpus delicti in laughs as a show-biz power couple with something to hide in director George Marshall's (Destry Rides Again) sly black comedy highlighted by a meticulously plotted, hilariously botched "perfect crime." If The Gazebo reminds you of The Trouble with Harry or Family Plot, there may be a reason: when everything is going wrong, the anxious murderer queries Alfred Hitchcock on the phone for some authoritative what-do-I-do-with-a-dead-body advice. Comedy veterans Carl Reiner, John McGiver and Doro Merande also add to the macabre merriment.
Original Release
01/15/1960
US Release
01/15/1960
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Glenn Ford | Elliott Nash |
Debbie Reynolds | Nell Nash |
Carl Reiner | Harlow Edison |
John McGiver | Sam Thorpe |
Mabel Albertson | Miss Chandler / Mrs. Chandler |
Doro Merande | Matilda |
Bert Freed | Lt. Joe Jenkins / Lt. Jenkins |
Martin Landau | The Duke |
Robert Ellenstein | Ben |
Dick Wessel | Louis the Louse |
Directors
Writers
George Wells, Alec Coppel, Myra Coppel
Cast
Name | Character |
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Glenn Ford | Elliott Nash |
Debbie Reynolds | Nell Nash |
Carl Reiner | Harlow Edison |
John McGiver | Sam Thorpe |
Mabel Albertson | Miss Chandler / Mrs. Chandler |
Doro Merande | Matilda |
Bert Freed | Lt. Joe Jenkins / Lt. Jenkins |
Martin Landau | The Duke |
Robert Ellenstein | Ben |
Dick Wessel | Louis the Louse |
Herman | Herman the Pigeon |
Stanley Adams | Dan Shelby |
Don Anderson | Television Technician in Booth |
Gene Coogan | Man |
Michael Dugan | First Engineer |
Meurisse Duree | Dancer |
Franklyn Farnum | Television Technician in Booth |
Peter Ford | TV Page Boy |
James Gavin | Sgt. Drucker |
Jimmy Hayes | Actor |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Lawrence Weingarten | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1960 | Oscar | Best Costume Design, Black-and-White | Nominated |