Come Blow Your Horn (film)
{{Short description|1963 American comedy film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Come Blow Your Horn
| image = Come Blow Your Horn film poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Bud Yorkin
| screenplay = Norman Lear
| based_on = {{based on|Come Blow Your Horn|Neil Simon}}
| producer = {{Unbulleted list|Norman Lear|Bud Yorkin}}
| starring = {{Unbulleted list|Frank Sinatra|Lee J. Cobb|Molly Picon|Barbara Rush|Jill St. John}}
| cinematography = William H. Daniels
| editing = Frank P. Keller
| music = Nelson Riddle
| studio = {{Unbulleted list|Tandem Productions|Essex Productions}}
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1963|06|05}}
| runtime = 112 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| gross = $12.7 million[http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1963/0CBYH.php Box Office Information for Come Blow Your Horn.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928234627/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1963/0CBYH.php |date=September 28, 2013 }} The Numbers. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
}}
Come Blow Your Horn is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin from a screenplay by Norman Lear, based on the 1961 play of the same name by Neil Simon. The film stars Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Barbara Rush, and Jill St. John.
Plot
Buddy Baker is bored living with his parents. He goes to the big-city apartment of older brother Alan, who works for their father's artificial-fruit company but never lets business interfere with a good time.
A confirmed bachelor, Alan is all too willing to teach his younger brother a few tricks, improve his wardrobe, even introduce him to Peggy, a girl with an apartment upstairs. Alan's steadiest companion is Connie, but even she's running out of patience with his lack of interest in settling down.
A jealous husband accuses Alan of running around with his wife and beats him up. Alan begins rethinking his life. He proposes marriage to Connie and then intervenes when he hears that his own parents are contemplating a divorce. Giving up his own ways for good, Alan even turns over his swinging bachelor pad to Buddy.
Cast
- Frank Sinatra as Alan Baker
- Lee J. Cobb as Harry R. Baker
- Molly Picon as Mrs. Sophie Baker
- Barbara Rush as Connie
- Jill St. John as Peggy John
- Dan Blocker as Mr. Eckman
- Phyllis McGuire as Mrs. Eckman (buyer for Neiman-Marcus)
- Tony Bill as Buddy Baker
Norman Lear and Dean Martin both make cameo appearances in this film.
Reception
=Box office performance=
Come Blow Your Horn was the 15th highest-grossing film of 1963, grossing $12,705,882 in the United States, earning $6 million in domestic rentals."All-Time Top Grossers", Variety, January 8, 1964 p 69
=Awards=
The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, James W. Payne).{{cite web|title=The Screen: 'Come Blow Your Horn':Sinatra Film Arrives at the Music Hall|authorlink=Bosley Crowther|author=Crowther, Bosley|date=June 7, 1963|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/06/07/archives/the-screen-come-blow-your-hornsinatra-film-arrives-at-the-music.html|work=The New York Times|accessdate=August 27, 2018|archive-date=August 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827044042/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/06/07/archives/the-screen-come-blow-your-hornsinatra-film-arrives-at-the-music.html|url-status=live}} Sinatra, St. John, Picon and Cobb each earned Golden Globe nominations for their performances.{{cite web | url=https://goldenglobes.com/film/come-blow-your-horn/ | title=Come Blow Your Horn | access-date=April 20, 2024 | archive-date=April 20, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420011529/https://goldenglobes.com/film/come-blow-your-horn/ | url-status=live }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0056940}}
- {{Rotten Tomatoes|come_blow_your_horn}}
- {{AFI film|23802}}
- {{TCMDb title|71274}}
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{{Norman Lear}}
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Category:1963 directorial debut films
Category:1960s English-language films
Category:American comedy films
Category:American films based on plays
Category:Films based on works by Neil Simon
Category:Films directed by Bud Yorkin
Category:Films scored by Nelson Riddle
Category:Films set in New York City
Category:Films with screenplays by Norman Lear
Category:Paramount Pictures films