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Hollywood in the Sixties: Man's Favourite Sport

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Tonight's film in this season of outstanding films stars Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss with Maria Perschy, Charlene Holt

Man's favourite sport is... fishing? Well not for Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson), a salesman of fishing tackle and famed author on angling. He finds himself entered for a fishing competition without ever having fished in his life - not to mention an aversion to fish in any form! Complications come thick and fast when he undergoes a crash course in the gentle art at the hand of the delightful Paula Prentiss in this crisp and entertaining Howard Hawks comedy of 1963 from Universal.

Contributors

Screenplay:
John Fenton Murray
Screenplay:
Steve McNeil
Produced and directed by:
Howard Hawks
Roger Willoughby:
Rock Hudson
Abigail Page:
Paula Prentiss
Isolde 'Easy' Mueller:
Maria Perschy
Tex Connors:
Charlene Holt
William Cadwalader:
John McGiver
Major Phipps:
Roscoe Karns
Source: Radio Times

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