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Houseboat / Paramount Pictures Corporation ; producer, Jack Rose ; writer, Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose ; director, Melville Shavelson.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 05806 | Paramount Home Video59191463000 | ParamountLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Widescreen DVD collectionPublication details: Hollywood, CA : Paramount Home Video, [2002]Description: 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0792180445
  • 9780792180449
  • 9780792183440
  • 0792183444
  • 0792180453
  • 9780792180456
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Ray June ; art directors, John B. Goodman, Hal Pereira ; costume designer, Edith Head.
Cast: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino, Eduardo Ciannelli, Mimi Gibson, Paul Petersen.Summary: Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD COMEDY HOUSEBOA Checked out 05/13/2024 33111010863849
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Cary Grant scored still another box-office smash with his 1958 vehicle Houseboat. Grant plays a widowed father who packs himself and his spoiled kiddies off to a ramshackle houseboat. Enter Sophia Loren, who is attempting to break loose from her tyrannical father's (Eduardo Cianelli) iron grip. She hires on as Grant's housekeeper and his children's governess. Though Grant struggles valiantly to maintain a "hands off" policy, he and Loren are billing and cooing by fadeout time--but not before plenty of reversals, recriminations and sitcom-style mishaps. As a bonus, the kids end up behaving like little angels (not surprising, since Loren has threatened from time to time to turn them into genuine angels if they don't toe the line). According to most sources, the on-screen romance between Cary Grant and Sophia Loren in Houseboat spilled over into their private lives as well, though Sophia put an end to this dalliance when she married Italian movie mogul Carlo Ponti. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

DVD, region 1, NTSC; widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

English or dubbed French dialogue, optional English subtitles; closed-captioned.

Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino, Eduardo Ciannelli, Mimi Gibson, Paul Petersen.

Director of photography, Ray June ; art directors, John B. Goodman, Hal Pereira ; costume designer, Edith Head.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.

Special features: theatrical trailer; teaser trailer; photo gallery.

Home use only.

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