40 Pounds of Trouble
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Universal-International Pictures | |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2,750,000 (US/ Canada)[1] |
40 Pounds of Trouble is a 1962
It marks Jewison's
40 Pounds of Trouble had a limited one-day-only New Year's Eve screening at select theaters across the United States, on the night of December 31, 1962.[11][12] Theaters showed the film from one to three times that night in celebration of the oncoming new year.[13] The film had its official world premiere on January 18, 1963, at the Carib-Miami-Miracle Theaters in Miami, Florida,[14] and the next day at Harrah's Club's South Shore Room in Lake Tahoe, Nevada which Curtis and his wife Christine Kaufmann attended.[15][16] The film then opened to the rest of the United States during the last week of January and first week of February 1963. It was a success and the film was nominated for a Golden Laurel Award for Top Comedy and Curtis was nominated for a Golden Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance.
Plot
A casino manager, Steve McCluskey, and his club singer, Chris Lockwood, find their hands full when they agree to take in a troublesome young girl named Penny Piper, left behind in the casino by her gambling father. The little girl hinders the manager's plans to keep his
Principal cast
Actor | Role |
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Tony Curtis | Steve McCluskey |
Suzanne Pleshette | Chris Lockwood |
Larry Storch | Floyd |
Howard Morris | Julius |
Edward Andrews | Herman |
Stubby Kaye | Cranston |
Warren Stevens | Swing |
Kevin McCarthy | Louie Blanchard |
Phil Silvers | Bernie "the Butcher" Friedman |
Claire Wilcox | Penelope "Penny" Piper |
Jimmy MacDonald (sound effects artist) | Witch Vocals in Snow White's Adventures |
Critical reception
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times summed up the film:
40 Pounds of Trouble is witless remake of a Runyon Story... Blunt promotion, thin humor fill script... The trouble with 40 Pounds of Trouble is that it is just too hackneyed and dull.[2]
Wilcox has been especially praised in her scene in the courthouse.[21]
Trivia
One of the first films to be shot at Disneyland.[22]
See also
References
- ^ "Top Rental Features of 1963", Variety, January 8, 1964, p 71. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
- ^ a b Bosley Crowther (January 24, 1963). "Screen: '40 Pounds of Trouble'". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
- ^ Yumpu.com. "boxoffice-february121962". yumpu.com. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
- ^ "Messenger-Inquirer from Owensboro, Kentucky on February 3, 1963 · 23". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1959). MBRS Library of Congress. Quigley Publishing Company, inc. 1959.
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- ^ Gettell, Oliver (May 23, 2015). "'Tomorrowland' and 5 more Disneyland movies to mark the park's 60th". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "The Evening Sun from Baltimore, Maryland on May 31, 1962 · 50". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
- ^ a b "Valley Times from North Hollywood, California on May 14, 1962 · 6". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
- ^ "Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California on May 7, 1962 · 10". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
- ^ "Argus-Leader from Sioux Falls, South Dakota on December 28, 1962 · Page 21". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ "Deseret News from Salt Lake City, Utah on December 29, 1962 · 3". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ "The Lima News from Lima, Ohio on December 20, 1962 · 23". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ "The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida on January 18, 1963 · 82". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ "The Miami News from Miami, Florida on January 19, 1963 · 9". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ "Hartford Courant from Hartford, Connecticut on January 20, 1963 · 28". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ 40 Pounds of Trouble, February 14, 1963, retrieved December 17, 2019
- ^ 40 Pounds of Trouble (1963), retrieved December 17, 2019
- ^ "The Secret Story Behind 40 Pounds of Trouble Part One". www.mouseplanet.com. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
- ^ Noble, Barnes &. "40 Pounds of Trouble". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
- ^ 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962), retrieved December 17, 2019
- ^ 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962) - IMDb, retrieved February 1, 2022
External links
- 40 Pounds of Trouble at IMDb
- 40 Pounds of Trouble at the TCM Movie Database
- 40 Pounds of Trouble at AllMovie