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After gaining a reputation as a mysterious healer, a charming Yale graduate must defend his honor before his unique talent lands him in jail.After gaining a reputation as a mysterious healer, a charming Yale graduate must defend his honor before his unique talent lands him in jail.After gaining a reputation as a mysterious healer, a charming Yale graduate must defend his honor before his unique talent lands him in jail.
Katharine Houghton
- Mrs. Skeel
- (as Katherine Houghton)
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- TriviaJohn Huston, who had long suffered from emphysema, personally asked Robert Mitchum to take his part in this film after he was hospitalized with pneumonia. Mitchum filmed the role during a break from War and Remembrance (1988).
- GoofsThe Cole Porter song "You Do Something to Me" was prominently featured at the end of the film, including being played and sung by the band at the ball. The film was set in 1926, but Cole Porter did not publish this song until 1929.
- Quotes
Theophilus North: Madam, I suggest that you encourage your children to play with matches!
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Who's to blame?
I finished reading "Theophilus North" today, and saw there was a film version, so I watched it.
I'm not sure whom to blame for the mess: Three screenwriters worked on this: Janet Roach & John Huston and James Costigan. I'm guessing that the original screenplay followed the book as much as possible of its 400 pages, then another scribbler came in to "punch it up" as a comedy. So we get snatches of the original, plus scenes not in the book (including a ridiculous boy-meets-girl at the very end). It doesn't work as it stands, a would-be riotous comedy about a man with "electric hands."
The rest of the blame must go to director Danny Huston. He lets Robert Mitchum do nothing but read his lines, HD Stanton get away with a poor British accent, and allows the likes of M Metcalf and T Grimes to overindulge.
I won't say "the book was better," because this movie mercifully changed the title, so it bears only passing relation to Wilder's book of a longer name.
I'm not sure whom to blame for the mess: Three screenwriters worked on this: Janet Roach & John Huston and James Costigan. I'm guessing that the original screenplay followed the book as much as possible of its 400 pages, then another scribbler came in to "punch it up" as a comedy. So we get snatches of the original, plus scenes not in the book (including a ridiculous boy-meets-girl at the very end). It doesn't work as it stands, a would-be riotous comedy about a man with "electric hands."
The rest of the blame must go to director Danny Huston. He lets Robert Mitchum do nothing but read his lines, HD Stanton get away with a poor British accent, and allows the likes of M Metcalf and T Grimes to overindulge.
I won't say "the book was better," because this movie mercifully changed the title, so it bears only passing relation to Wilder's book of a longer name.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Mr. North - Liebling der Götter
- Filming locations
- Blithewold Mansion - 101 Ferry Road, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA(the Skeel house and garden)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $5,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,221,366
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $37,036
- Jul 24, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $1,221,366
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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