Walk, Don't Run
- Cary Grant: Sir William Rutland
- Samantha Eggar: Christine Easton
- Jim Hutton: Steve Davis
- John Standing: Julius D. Haversack
- Miiko Taka: Aiko Kurawa
- Ted Hartley: Yuri Andreyovitch
- Ben Astar Dimitri
- George Takei: Police Captain
- Teru Shimada: Mr. Kurawa
- Lois Kiuchi: Mrs. Kurawa
- Miyoshi Jingu: Businessman
Not so fast, my boy ( original title: Walk Do not Run ) is an American comedy film directed by Charles Walters from 1966 with Cary Grant in his last screen role.
Action
The British businessman Sir William Rutland travels to Tokyo in 1964, where just held the Olympic Games and therefore all of the hotel rooms are already occupied. The British Embassy is unable to help him in search of a place to stay. There, however, he discovered a leaflet with a roommate is looking for an apartment. Rutland makes itself immediately on the way. The young tenant of the apartment, Christine Easton, has actually a woman as desired roommate and finds it offensive to live with a strange man who can be of Rutland but nevertheless persuaded to accept him.
The next day, the athlete learns Rutland Steve Davis know. Steve is part of the U.S. Olympic Team and is also looking for an accommodation. Helpful offers him Rutland to share his room with him, which, however, Christine is less than enthusiastic. After she finally agreed but also to let Steve stay with him, Rutland tried the young people to hook up with each other, especially as he. Christines fiancé, the British diplomat Julius D. Haversack, considers a boring poseur To this end, Rutland issues even as an athlete to talk to Steve at the competition in the discipline, going about Christine.
Meanwhile, a Soviet security officer believes that it is Steve and Christine is spies, which is why both are arrested. Rutland, however, ensures that they are free to come back. Julius but now fears that his diplomatic career will be damaged, should turn out that his fiancée with another man can live in her apartment. Again, it is Rutland, who takes care of the problem. He arranges a marriage between Steve and Christine and manages to both spend enough time together to get to be about their feelings for each other clearly, and their mutual love to confess. Rutland then returns back with satisfaction to England.
Background
It is a remake of George Stevens ' successful film comedy The More the Merrier (The More the Merrier ) from the year 1943. During Stevens ' film against the backdrop of the housing shortage in Washington, DC Takes place in the early 1940s, my boy, it is so fast in Not the Summer Olympic Games of 1964, which provide the framework of action and once actually attended in Tokyo for a property emergency. The shooting took place in 1965 on location in Tokyo, where, among other things, the Hotel Okura served as a backdrop.
For lead actor Cary Grant was my boy Not so fast, the last film of his career. Although 1966 was still considered top star and received many offers role, he retired after the end of the shoot, like many other actors of his generation from the film business. He did not give more the romantic hero on the side of much younger actresses at the age of 62 years, as he had done as late as 1963 alongside Audrey Hepburn in the comedy thriller Charade. In his opinion, he would have come only for roles as grandfather in question, but he refused. He was also unhappy with the scripts he got sent, and with the development of Hollywood in general. Privately, there was a crucial change that his decision to never wanting to make movies again affirmed. In February 1966 his daughter Jennifer was born, to which he wanted to take care henceforth intensive.
Not so fast, my boy was premiered on June 29, 1966 in the United States. On January 13, 1967, the film was also released in Germany.
Reviews
The lexicon of the International film called Not so fast, my boy as " entertainment theater with humor and irony ." For Cinema, the film was an " [o ] lympiareifer fun with pretty running gags ". The film Protestant observers said, however, of a " try an old film material modern polish ," but in which " despite Cary Grant only to long boring guessed entertainment goods " had come out.
Variety was that the film is " a very entertaining, often highly amusing comedy" is. Cary Grant was in the role of the respected businessman "outstanding " and " at the height of his comedic creation ".
German version
The German synchronous processing was 1966.