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

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

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Original Title: If It is Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1969 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Mel Stuart

Written By:
David Shaw

Actors:
Suzanne Pleshette ..... Samantha Perkins
Ian McShane ..... Charlie Cartwright
Mildred Natwick ..... Jenny Grant
Murray Hamilton ..... Fred Ferguson
Sandy Baron ..... John Marino
Michael Constantine ..... Jack Harmon
Norman Fell ..... Harve Blakely
Peggy Cass ..... Edna Ferguson
Marty Ingels ..... Bert Greenfield
Pamela Britton ..... Freda
Reva Rose ..... Irma Blakely
Aubrey Morris ..... Harry Dix
Hilary Thompson ..... Shelly Ferguson
Luke Halpin ..... Bo
Mario Carotenuto ..... Giuseppe

Synopsis:

Womanizing Brit Charlie Cartwright is about to conduct Worldwind Tour #225, a nine country, eighteen day bus trip from London to Rome. He uses these tours in large part to catch up with his vast stable of casual girlfriends located in each of the visited cities. Within the group of disparate Americans on this tour, most who have never been to Europe, and the reason for them taking this trip are: parents who want to get their hormone driven teen-aged daughter away from her boyfriend despite the fact that the father doesn't want to leave the familiarity of home; a not-so woman's man who wants to prove to his friends that he had a beautiful woman in every country; an ethnic non-Italian speaking Italian who wants to catch up with the relatives he's never met; a WWII veteran who wants to re-experience the best times he's ever had; and a man who solely wants 'free' souvenirs. But the one Charlie is most interested in is pretty Samantha Perkins, a self-confessed straight-laced woman who wants to experience life in a faraway land while she contemplates the marriage proposal of her boyfriend, George. As the group gets into one adventure and misadventure after another - including one person catching the wrong bus, the Italian having family connections he wished he hadn't while missing the one he wished he had, and the daughter sneaking off with a young American on a protest tour - Charlie does his best to woo Sam, who, despite her inexperience, seems to know Charlie's ploy. But Sam has to figure out where Charlie and or George will fit into her future if at all, and Charlie has to decide if he will ever grow up.

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.

A group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days. Included in the group are Samantha Perkins, a lovely young miss who finds time for some romance with handsome Britisher Charlie Cartwright; Jenny Grant, an elderly lady with energy to spare; Harve and Irma Blakely, a married couple who get separated; and John Marino, an Italian-American who almost gets married off while visiting relatives in Venice.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 03 December, 2010.

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