Product Details

• Actors: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner, John McGiver, Mabel Albertson
• Directors: George Marshall
• Writers: Alec Coppel, George Wells, Myra Coppel
• Producers: Lawrence Weingarten
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Warner)
• VHS Release Date: March 2, 1994
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302985315
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,441 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clever Comedy with a "Killer" Twist, March 19, 2002

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Gary F. Taylor "GFT" (Biloxi, MS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gazebo [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Glenn Ford is the producer of a television mystery series who attempts to protect his Broadway star wife (Debbie Reynolds) from a blackmailer--and decides to eliminate the blackmailer via a murder plot suggested by his own series. The result is a comic chaos involving a couple of gansters, a peculiar pigeon, and the gazebo his wife is having built on their country property.

Based on the play of the same name, THE GAZEBO strives for a mix of broad farce, screwball comedy, and sprightly sophistocation--and by and large brings it off quite well. I have never been a great fan of Glenn Ford, but he manages both the broad physical comedy and the clever dialogue of this film with equal ease. Debbie Reynolds is also quite good in the role of the stage-star wife, and she and Ford have a surprisingly successful chemistry. Although the humor is more smile-and-chuckle than laugh-out-loud, THE GAZEBO is a well made, well acted, and quite enjoyable. Recommended.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!, December 8, 2006

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R. Schultz (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gazebo [VHS] (VHS Tape)

There haven't been many American film comedies that really make me laugh out loud. I've usually had to turn to the Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, British movies of the 50s for that. But The Gazebo is an exception. It's an American comedy with that whacky, mad-in-a-sane-world British spirit.

Glenn Ford keeps up a frenetic pace as he tries to dispose of a dead body without letting his wife know what he's up to. He encounters one hilarious obstacle after another in simply trying to rid himself of the thing.

Debbie Reynolds doesn't know what to think when she asks Ford what happened to their shower curtain and he feverishly replies, "Well, a man collecting for Hungarian Relief came to the door, and I gave it to him."

You know any movie that contains the quizzical line, "You donated our shower curtain to Hungarian Relief?" - has GOT to be funny. This is a gem that deserves to be put into wider DVD distribution SOON!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DVD PLEASE !!!!!, November 15, 2005

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Anita (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gazebo [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I agree with the previous viewer---this needs to be on DVD. Why has so few of Debbie Reynolds films been converted to DVD. Someone really needs to get started on them. I just love her classic movies and I'm anxiously waiting for them including "My Six Loves" which never even made it to VHS. Thanks