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Man's Favorite Sport?

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Man's Favorite Sport? (1963)

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Reviews Counted:15

Fresh:9

Rotten:6

Average Rating:6.2/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Roger Willoughby, fishing gear salesman for Abercrombie & Fitch, is ordered by his boss to participate in a fishing competition. There's only one problem, however: Roger's never worked a rod and... Roger Willoughby, fishing gear salesman for Abercrombie & Fitch, is ordered by his boss to participate in a fishing competition. There's only one problem, however: Roger's never worked a rod and reel in his life. But he goes along with the charade, until he meets the beautiful Abigail, and becomes involved in a sport of a very different kind. [More]

Starring: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, Charlene Holt

Starring: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, Charlene Holt, John McGiver, Roscoe Karns, Forrest Lewis, Regis Toomey

Director: Howard Hawks

Director: Howard Hawks
Producer: Howard Hawks
Screenwriter: John Fenton Murray, Steve McNeil
Composer: Henry Mancini

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Matters are helped along somewhat by an attractive and spirited cast, but not enough to keep the film consistently amusing.

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Hawks delivers his usual heavy-handed direction, but the film's premise is too flimsy to spread over two hours. The script is marred by tired comic routines and slow pacing.

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In many ways the quintessential Hollywood auteur movie.

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Here Hawks moves a little slower, cribbing some of his own early jokes, but still dead funny.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Combustible Celluloid

Limp screwball comedy from the usually reliable Howard Hawks.

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11/07/05
Dennis Schwartz
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Classic slapstick fun

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08/13/05
Michael E. Grost
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Emanuel Levy
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Man's Favorite Sport?, the film's theme song has it, is girls. It certainly is not originality or comedy.

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05/09/05
A.H. Weiler
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Cute Comedy

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09/21/04
Tony Medley
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Tolucan Times

Overly long screwball comedy from director Hawks who sticks to a formula he used better in Bringing Up Baby.

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Late in the day, overlong, but vastly enjoyable Hawks' comedt

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Ken Hanke
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Here Hawks moves a little slower, cribbing some of his own early jokes, but still dead funny.

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08/30/02
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Outdoorsman-columnist Rock Hudson suddenly finds he has to live up to his reputation in this 1964 Howard Hawks comedy that's funnier than it has any right to be.

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