The Tiger Makes Out
1967 film by Arthur Hiller
- August 18, 1967 (1967-08-18) (New York City)
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The Tiger Makes Out is a 1967 American black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Eli Wallach and his wife Anne Jackson. The plot concerns a kidnapper and his unintended victim.[1] It marked Dustin Hoffman's film debut.
Plot
Ben Harris, an alienated Greenwich Village postal carrier, decides to get a girl by kidnapping her. Putting his plan into operation one rainy night, he spots an attractive young woman. He races ahead of her and prepares an ambush. However, his would-be target finds shelter from the downpour, and he ends up pulling a bag over Gloria Fiske instead.
When he carries her back to his basement apartment and removes the bag, he is dumbfounded to find he has captured a middle-aged housewife. With no alternative, he makes do with the person he has caught, but she proves to be not quite what he envisaged.
Cast
- Eli Wallach as Benjamin "Ben" Harris
- Anne Jackson as Gloria Fiske
- Bob Dishy as Jerome "Jerry" Fiske
- John Harkins as Leo
- Ruth White as Edna Kelly
- Roland Wood as Tom Kelly
- Rae Allen as Beverly
- Sudie Bond as Miss Lane
- David Burns as Louie Ratner
- Jack Fletcher as Pawnbroker
- Bibi Osterwald as Theodora Ratner
- Charles Nelson Reilly as Mr. Henry—Registrar
- Frances Sternhagen as Woman on Bus
- Elizabeth Wilson as Receptionist
- Kim August as Toni the Songbird
- Alice Beardsley as Kentucky Neighbor
- Mariclare Costello as Rosi
- David Doyle as Marty—Housing Clerk
- Dustin Hoffman as Hap
- Michele Kesten as Waitress
- James Luisi as Pete Coppola
- Remak Ramsay as Housing Guard
- Sherman Raskin as Red Schwartzkopf
- John Ryan as Toni's Escort
- Edgar Stehli as Old Man
- Oren Stevens as Policeman
- Judy Graubart as Woman Passing Lassoed Hydrant
Home media
The Tiger Makes Out was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment August 5, 2014, via its Choice Collection DVD-on-demand service, as a Region 1 DVD.
See also
References
- ^ Crowther, Bosley (September 19, 1967). "The Tiger Makes Out (1967) Screen: 'Tiger' Returns: Schisgal Story Charms as Film at Cinema I". The New York Times.
External links
- The Tiger Makes Out at IMDb
- The Tiger Makes Out at AllMovie
- The Tiger Makes Out at the TCM Movie Database
- The Tiger Makes Out at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Films directed by Arthur Hiller
- Massacre at Sand Creek (1956)
- Homeward Borne (1957)
- The Edge of Innocence (1957)
- The Careless Years (1957)
- Before I Die (1958)
- Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
- The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
- The Americanization of Emily (1964)
- Promise Her Anything (1965)
- Penelope (1966)
- Tobruk (1967)
- The Tiger Makes Out (1967)
- Popi (1969)
- The Out-of-Towners (1970)
- Love Story (1970)
- Plaza Suite (1971)
- The Hospital (1971)
- Man of La Mancha (1972)
- The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
- The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
- W. C. Fields and Me (1976)
- Silver Streak (1976)
- The In-Laws (1979)
- Nightwing (1979)
- Making Love (1982)
- Author! Author! (1982)
- Romantic Comedy (1983)
- The Lonely Guy (1984)
- Teachers (1984)
- Outrageous Fortune (1987)
- See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
- Taking Care of Business (1990)
- Married to It (1991)
- The Babe (1992)
- Carpool (1996)
- An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
- National Lampoon's Pucked (2006)
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