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starring: Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Joan Delaney, Michael Constantine
directed by: Howard Morris

 : Don't Drink the Water

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236218173
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Running Time: 100 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Sales Rank: 29108
MPN: LGED21817D




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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 100 minutes Rating: G



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Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Pleasant little Cold War comedy, but NOT Gleason's best work
Adapted from Woody Allen's 1966 Broadway play and directed by Howard Morris (both men worked in the 1950s on Sid Caesar's TV show), DON'T DRINK THE WATER is the story of an American family who are accused of spying when they leave their plane to take pictures, after it's hijacked and forced to land in mythical "Vulgaria." They flee to the American Embassy, and seek help from the absent Ambassador's clueless son.

Note that this version (to its detriment) bears little resemblance to the ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Forty Year old Water never tasted so sweet
What can you say to a forty year old comedy that seem as funny today as it did then. Don't Drink the Water is still a gem of a film. Water's screenplay was written by Woody Allen. It has all the trapping the Allen himself would use in his future screenplays which he would direct. The film is character driven and not action driven, something Allen did in the films in the beginning of his career.

This is the basic plot of the story . The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - FINALLY!
Thank you Lion's Gate for acquiring the rights to Avco-Embassy's 'Don't Drink the Water'! I have been waiting for a very long time for this title to come to DVD and this March it finally will! In its original SCOPE widescreen presentation no less!



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