Follow the Boys (1963 film)
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Duration Running time 1h 35m Language English | 5.2/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Musical, Romance Initial release February 27, 1963 (USA) Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer David T. Chantler (screenplay), David D. Osborn (screenplay), Lawrence P. Bachmann (original story) Screenplay David D. Osborn, David T. Chantler Cast (Bonnie Pulaski), (Toni Denham), (Michele Perrier), (Liz Bradville), (Lt. (j.g.) Wadsworth 'Smitty' Smith), (Lt. Peter Langley) Similar movies Pitch Perfect 2 , Birdman , Frozen , Mulan , Aladdin , Hercules | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Follow the Boys (1963) is a comedy film starring Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, and Janis Paige, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed by Richard Thorpe and shot on location on the French and Italian Riviera, Follow the Boys was MGM's second film vehicle for top recording artist Francis following Where the Boys Are (1960). While Francis' role in the earlier film had been somewhat secondary, she had a distinctly central role in Follow the Boys playing Bonnie Pulaski, a newlywed traveling the Riviera.
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Plot
Bonnie visits various ports-of-call in hopes of a rendezvous with her sailor husband (Roger Perry), who is summoned to active duty from their honeymoon. Missing the original point and time of rendezvous in the port of Nice by a few minutes, Bonnie follows the ship to Italy in a somewhat rickety and battered pink 2 CV accompanied by veteran navy wife Janis Paige and two other officers' girlfriends, played by Francis' Where the Boys Are co-star Paula Prentiss and by Dany Robin, who are likewise intent on romantic reunions. Happy endings for each of the ladies are delayed by a series of romantic and comedic misunderstandings.
Paige's husband is played by Ron Randell, with Richard Long and Russ Tamblyn as the respective love interests for Robin and Prentiss.
Cast
Production
MGM producer-writer Lawrence Bachman had a vacation home in the south of France. While staying there, he met several Navy wives who lived in Villefranche and spent a lot of their time following their husbands from port to port.
The film was shot in the south of France and at London's Elstree Studios.
References
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