The Honey Pot ( 1967 ) ( Mr. Fox of Venice (The Honeypot) )

The Honey Pot ( 1967 ) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Mr. Fox of Venice (The Honeypot)
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

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

Running Time:
126 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Written By:
Ben Jonson
Frederick Knott

Actors:
Rex Harrison ..... Cecil Sheridan Fox
Susan Hayward ..... Mrs. Sheridan
Cliff Robertson ..... William McFly
Capucine ..... Princess Dominique
Edie Adams ..... Merle McGill
Maggie Smith ..... Sarah Watkins
Adolfo Celi ..... Inspector Rizzi
Hugh Manning ..... Volpone
David Dodimead ..... Mosca

Synopsis:

In Venice, the millionaire benefactor Cecil Fox watches a Seventeenth Century play 'Volpone' and plots a practical joke to play on his three former greedy mistresses. He hires the unemployed actor William McFly to act as his butler and stage manager and sends letters telling the mistresses he is terminally ill. The prime intention of Rex is to see the reaction of the women after the reading of his will but things do not go as planned.

Inspired by a performance of his favorite play, 'Volpone,' 20th-century millionaire Cecil Fox devises an intricate plan to trick three of his former mistresses into believing he is dying. Although the women are wealthy in their own right, all have good reason to covet his fortune. To assist him in his scheme, Fox hires William McFly, a gigolo and sometime actor, to act as his secretary/servant. Fox is soon visited at his 'deathbed' by the three former mistresses: Merle McGill, a fading Hollywood sex symbol; Princess Dominique, who once took a cruise on Fox's yacht; and Lone Star Crockett, a Texas hypochondriac who travels with an enigmatic nurse/companion. As Fox and McFly act out the charade, things take an unexpected turn from comical farce to full-blown murder mystery.

A millionaire concocts a charade that he is dying in order to test the reactions of his three mistresses.

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