Matters are helped along somewhat by an attractive and spirited cast, but not enough to keep the film consistently amusing.
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05/13/08
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... [More]
Starring: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, Charlene Holt
Director: Howard Hawks
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Reviews for Man's Favorite Sport?
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Top CriticHawks 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.
05/13/08
Top CriticIn many ways the quintessential Hollywood auteur movie.
06/24/06
Top CriticHere Hawks moves a little slower, cribbing some of his own early jokes, but still dead funny.
05/26/06
Limp screwball comedy from the usually reliable Howard Hawks.
11/07/05
Classic slapstick fun
08/13/05
No review available.
06/19/05
Man's Favorite Sport?, the film's theme song has it, is girls. It certainly is not originality or comedy.
05/09/05
Top CriticCute Comedy
09/21/04
Overly long screwball comedy from director Hawks who sticks to a formula he used better in Bringing Up Baby.
03/30/04
Top CriticLate in the day, overlong, but vastly enjoyable Hawks' comedt
09/24/02
Here Hawks moves a little slower, cribbing some of his own early jokes, but still dead funny.
08/30/02
No review available.
08/15/02
No review available.
07/30/02
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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