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This film is an absolute must see for all Cary Grant fans !!! It is a superb twist of romance and comedy.. although surprisingly it's not Cary whose on course for the romance, rather he plays the matchmaker !! and wonderful he is at it too !!!

There are many highlights to this film... watch out for the way Cary talks his way into sharing Samantha Eggar's flat, and when he runs in the race in his boxer shorts and vest !!! (a hilarious moment) and finally the most heart rending moment when he's outside at the end of the film and he lets the shutters go up between the two lovebirds, allowing them to be be together !!! Will definitely make you say aww !!!

This film is absolutely brilliant and definitely in my top 5 Cary Grant films !!

a must for Cary Grant fans !!!!

Cary Grant-the perfect Leading Man-filmed his last movie at Columbia. The film was a remake of George Stevens classic film The More The Merrier with the incomparable Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea. Cary Grant controlled everything about his movies and cast Jim Hutton-who made all those comedies at MGM with his co star Paula Prentiss, and lovely Samantha Eggar. Cary Grant himself plays the older man played by Charles Coburn in the original film.

This film is set at the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 and the setting is terrific and Harry Stardling Jr was a great cinematographer. Directed by Charles Walters who was an MGM staff producer who did work sometimes uncredited in movies such as Cimmarron, Annie Get Your Gun, or credited such a Joan Crawford's Torch Song. No matter as Cary Grant like all mega stars such as Lucy, Sinatra ran their pictures totally.

Hutton is an interesting star. Discovered by Universal while in the US Army in Germany, he was given a 7 year contract by MGM and cast in George Peppard's The Subterreans. Hutton hit a home run co starring with gorgeous Paula Prentiss in Where The Boys Are and the duo made 3 more movies Bachelor in Paradise, The Honeymoon Machine with Prentiss and Steve McQueen, and The Horizontal Lieutenant with Prentiss. He went on a year long suspension to get out of his contract but had to film Looking For Love with Connie Francis before MGM would release Hutton. Hutton moved on to work with Lana Turner, John Wayne, Roz Russell, Bob Hope, Burt Lancaster, and Charlton Heston and his big break was this movie with Cary Grant deferring the leading man role to Hutton.

Samantha Eggar had the impossible task of starring in the female role created by the peerless Jean Arthur in the original.

Walk Don't Run made money most of which went to Cary Grant and while he was inundated with movie offers the very very rich Cary Grant retired

This movie was successful due to Cary Grant but in no way was the hit that The More The Merrier

They don't make comedies like this anymore. It's got a bit of the mad-cap silliness of the era, as though people could be ridiculous and think it somehow made sense. God, sometimes I wish that were so. The characters bicker constantly, yet that never seems to stop them from getting along. Wouldn't it be fun if life were really like that? This film makes it seem as though it could be. It's about three westerners who share the Tokyo apartment of one of them during a short-lived housing crunch arising from the '64 Olympics. It's a very slight premise, but it serves to propel a gem of a light-hearted comedy. The humor is droll, dry, witty, and acerbic. But, there's a sense of we're-all-in-this-together that keeps the film on the fun side of the line that divides confusion from conflict. If you like "The Gilmore Girls," but would prefer a little more sedate pace, you'll love this one.

I have always loved this movie. It was a typical light, romantic comedy that Cary Grant was renown for and it was a perfect vehicle for him to transition to the older man supporting role. It used all his talents for keeping it light, witty and intelligent without it being slapstick. I was sad to realize it was Grant's last movie as he could have had another ten or twenty years playing such roles. It was our loss.

I also like others in the cast despite others criticisms. Eggar and Hutton had just the right amount of chemistry. Setting it during the Tokyo Olympics made it contemporary for the times. And unlike many other 60's movies this one does not date itself all that much.

This film was probably launched as a "Cary Grant" vehicle, a remake of "The More the Merrier", but I suggest it is a major comedy for several other reasons. As William Rutland, peer and genial businessman and busybody, Grant is mature and good; but involving him in the housing shortage in Tokyo during the 1964 Olympics was a stroke of near-genius. Adding in the old storyline about a girl planning to marry for money and introducing the right man for her instead, in the persons of Samantha Egggar and Jim Hutton, was better, with Grant acting as matchmaker. But making Hutton a member of the US Olympic team and keeping his event a secret, adding in a comedic Russian spy, the smallness of their shared apartment which Grant sublets to Hutton after wangling his own way in, plus visiting a Japanese household of friend Miiko Taka with Eggar and fiancée John Standing, he of the "tall forehead" and boring personality, was I claim pure gold comedically speaking. Charles Walters directed this satirical comedy in breezy style, with story by Robert Russell and Frank Ross from Sol Saks' and Grason Kanin's inspired story. The cast included besides the principals George Takei as a Tokyo police officer, Ben Astar as Dimitri the bumbling Russian spy, skilled actor Teru Shimada as Taka's father, Lois Kiuchi as her mother, Ted Hartley as Yuri, Hutton's Russian fellow athlete-friend, and hundreds of others in bit parts and small roles. The very genial music for the film by Quincy Jones was low-key and delightful; Henry Mancini supplied songs also; the cinematography by Harry Stradling Sr. was lovely from start to finish; and the production designs by Joseph C. Wright were varied and serviceable through. Outstanding scenes in the narrative include I suggest the way in which Sir William's trousers keep disappearing, the attempt by Grant in underwear to enter the Olympic walking event to obtain a signature on a document from Hutton, the party where Grant suggest to a lady Russian shot putter that she put her derrière somewhere else than in his dinner, the trip to see Eggar's friends (the Kurawa family) and the police station scene, among others. This is a sometimes slick and always amusing and I find frequently very-involving story filled with characters that seem unusually real. It may have begun as a Cary Grant vehicle; but I find Hutton is brilliant, and it became despite a bit of over- lengthy presentation a classic as a romance, a comedy concerning overcrowding and a presentation of very memorable characters whose general theme is how one need to deal with life by means of honesty rather than by taking the seemingly easiest path. A favorite of many, many filmgoers, myself included.