Perfect Gentlemen
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Genre
  • Comedy
  • Crime
Written byNora Ephron
Directed byJackie Cooper
StarringLauren Bacall
Ruth Gordon
Sandy Dennis
Lisa Pelikan
Robert Alda
Music byDominic Frontiere
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producerBud Austin
ProducerJackie Cooper
Production locationClaremont, California
CinematographyWilliam K. Jurgensen
EditorJerry Dronsky
Running time100 minutes
Production companyParamount Television
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseMarch 14, 1978 (1978-03-14)

Perfect Gentlemen is a 1978 American made-for-television comedy crime film starring Lauren Bacall (in her television film debut), Ruth Gordon, Sandy Dennis and Lisa Pelikan. The film, produced and directed by Jackie Cooper from a screenplay written by Nora Ephron, was filmed on location in Claremont, California and Hollywood, California from October 27, 1977, to November 1977.[1] It originally premiered on March 14, 1978, on CBS.[2]

Plot

Three women with totally different backgrounds who share a common bond: each needs a large sum of money and each has a husband serving time at a maximum security prison. Lizzie Martin (Lauren Bacall) has been instructed by her husband Ed (Robert Alda) to deliver a $1 million bribe in order to get him an instant parole; however, when she learns he has been having an affair with his secretary, Lizzie wants to disappear but fears for her life if she doesn't carry out his instructions.

Sophie Rosenman (Sandy Dennis) needs money to save the family's bankrupt delicatessen; Annie Cavagnaro (Lisa Pelikan) needs money because she's pregnant, and Lizzie could use the funds to escape from Ed, so the three women devise an elaborate scheme to deliver the bribe money and then steal it back. Mrs. Cavagnaro (Ruth Gordon), Annie's mother-in-law, joins the trio when they discover they need her because of her safe-cracking expertise.[3]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Shelley, Peter. Sandy Dennis: The Life and Films, retrieved January 17, 2015.
  2. ^ "Perfect Gentlemen 1978". trakt.tv. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Perfect Gentlemen 1978 Directed by Jackie Cooper". Letterboxd. letterboxd.com. Retrieved 22 December 2017.

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