John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

96 mins | Comedy | March 24, 1965

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

96 mins | Comedy | March 24, 1965

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.
IMDb rating 5.0
Producers 20th Century Fox, Orchard Productions, Steve Parker Productions
Original title John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Directors John Franco, Fred R. Simpson, Richard Talmadge, John Flynn, J. Lee Thompson
Writers William Peter Blatty

Cast

Shirley MacLaine

as Jenny

Peter Ustinov

as Fawz

Richard Crenna

as John Goldfarb

Jim Backus

as Whitepaper

Scott Brady

as Sakalakis

Fred Clark

as Overreach

Harry Morgan

as Sarajevo

Patrick Adiarte

as Ammud

Richard Deacon

as Maginot

Jerome Cowan

as Brinkley

Leon Askin

as Samir

David Lewis

as Cronkite

Milton Frome

as Air Force General

Charles Lane

as Editor

Jerry Orbach

as Pinkerton

Jackie Coogan

as Father Ryan

Nai Bonet

as Specialty Dancer

Sultanna

as Specialty Dancer

Dick Wilson

as Frobish (uncredited)

Barbara Bouchet

as Astrid Porche (uncredited)

James Brolin

as Notre Dame Quarterback (uncredited)

Ron Brown

as Football Player (uncredited)

George Allen

as Vendor (uncredited)

Syl Lamont

as Captain of Notre Dame Team (uncredited)

Stanley Ralph Ross

as Muezzin (uncredited)

Eve Bruce

as Harem Girl (uncredited)

Telly Savalas

as Macmuid (uncredited)

Olan Soule

as Second Editor (uncredited)

Jim Boles

as Air Force Colonel (uncredited)

Angela Douglas

as Harem Girl (uncredited)

Carey Foster

as Harem Girl (uncredited)

Linda Foster

as Harem Girl (uncredited)

Teri Garr

as Harem Girl (uncredited)

Shelby Grant

as Harem Girl (uncredited)

Sandra Gregg

as Harem Girl (uncredited)

Paula Lane

as Polly Benson (uncredited)