If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)

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A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. The film is a likeable satire of "packaged" European tours, where the nonplused tourists are expected to rush from one landmark to another in a breathless 18 days.… More A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. The film is a likeable satire of "packaged" European tours, where the nonplused tourists are expected to rush from one landmark to another in a breathless 18 days. Ian McShane stars as the amorous tour guide, with Suzanne Pleshette as the American department store buyer he falls for; their romance ends when Pleshette decides that the supposedly worldly McShane is too immature for her. An all-star cast, including Murray Hamilton, Peggy Cass, Pamela Britton, Marty Ingels, John Cassavetes and Vittorio De Sica, pops up in comic cameo roles. Our favorite bit: an American and German tourist, simultaneously regaling their respective wives with wildly divergent accounts of the same wartime confrontation. If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium was reworked in 1987 as a made-for-TV movie, cleverly title If It's Tuesday, It Still Must be Belgium. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: G, 1 hr. 39 min.
Directed By: Mel Stuart
Written By: David Shaw
Genres: Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy

In Theaters: Apr 24, 1969 Wide
On DVD: May 20, 2008

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Red L

This movie follows a busload of tourists rushing from city to city in Europe. The story is fine and I love the European scenery. One of the better vintage classics.
jay n

If its got Suzanne Pleshette it really doesn't need much more

Cast

            Suzanne Pleshette as Samantha Perkins

            Ian McShane as Charlie

            Mildred Natwick as Jenny Grant

            Murray Hamilton as Fred Ferguson

            Sandy Baron as John Marina

            Michael Constantine as Jack Harmon

            Norman Fell as Harve Blakely

            Peggy Cass as Edna Ferguson

            Marty Ingels as Bert Greenfield

            Pamela Britton as Freda

            Luke Halpin as Bo

            Aubrey Morris as Harry Dix

            Reva Rose as Irma Blakely

            Hilary Thompson as Shelly Ferguson

            Patricia Routledge as Mrs. Featherstone

            Marina Berti as Gina

            Jenny White as Dot

            Roger Six as Marcel

            Lillian Atterer as Miss Germany

            Lucien Krier as Miss Luxembourg

            Senta Berger
            
            John Cassavetes as Card Player

            Joan Collins
            
            Vittorio De Sica as Shoemaker

            Anita Ekberg as Nightclub Performer

            Ben Gazzara as Card Player

            Virna Lisi
            
            Elsa Martinelli as Woman on Bridge

            Catherine Spaak as Woman Posing for Photographer

            Robert Vaughn as Photographer

            Mario Carotenuto as Giuseppe

            Paul Esser as German Sergeant

            Frank Latimore as George

            Donovan as Singer at Youth Hostel
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