John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
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During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1965-03-24
Runtime: 96 mins
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Writer: William Peter Blatty
Spoken language: English
Genres: Comedy
Original title: John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Production Companies: Orchard Productions, Steve Parker Productions, 20th Century Fox
Production Countries: United States of America
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