The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
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50% of critics liked it
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71% of users liked it
(4,556 ratings)
The Glass Bottom Boat is hardly a high point in the careers of star Doris Day and director Frank Tashlin, though it is a better-than-usual example of that pure-'60s genre, the "spy spoof." Day plays Jennifer Nelson, a PR worker at NASA in Florida. She also doubles as a… More The Glass Bottom Boat is hardly a high point in the careers of star Doris Day and director Frank Tashlin, though it is a better-than-usual example of that pure-'60s genre, the "spy spoof." Day plays Jennifer Nelson, a PR worker at NASA in Florida. She also doubles as a "mermaid" for her father, Axel (Arthur Godfrey), the skipper of a glass-bottom tourist boat. While garbed in her skimpy mermaid costume, she has a run-in with handsome space technician Bruce Templeton (Rod Taylor). Through a series of misunderstandings, Bruce is led to believe that Jennifer is an enemy spy, determined to steal scientific secrets. Several other characters enter into the plot, including bumbling secret agent Julius Pritter (Dom DeLuise) and prissy security chief Homer Cripps (Paul Lynde). Also on hand are TV favorites Dick Martin as Jennifer's erstwhile beau and Eric Fleming as a man of mystery. A few cute celebrity cameos round out this ribtickler, while Doris Day, as always, gets a few opportunities to sing. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Frank Tashlin
- Written By
- Everett Freeman
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy, Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Mystery & Suspense
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jun 9, 1966 Wide
- Studio
- WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's just a wonderfully stupid comedy.
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Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
pretty thin
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Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine
I'd like to presume that Lynde is removing lipstick from his teeth, and not Robert Wagner's short curlies.
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Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine
The film flails airlessly, not unlike Day herself when she's mistakenly locked inside Taylor's anti-gravity prototype.
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Cast
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Doris Day
as Jennifer Nelson
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Rod Taylor
as Bruce Templeton
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Arthur Godfrey
as Axel Nordstrom
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John McGiver
as Ralph Goodwin
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Paul Lynde
as Homer Cripps
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Edward Andrews
as Gen. Wallace Bleecker
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Dom DeLuise
as Julius Pratter
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Elisabeth Fraser
as Nina Bailey
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Dick Martin
as Zack Molly
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George Tobias
as Mr. Fenimore
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Alice Pearce
as Mrs. Fenimore
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Ellen Corby
as Anna Miller
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Dee J. Thompson
as Donna
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Eric Fleming
as Edgar Hill
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Robert Vaughn
as Napoleon Solo
- Dom De Luise
