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Gazebo [VHS]

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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.

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!

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

If you go to TCM.com you can take a vote on whether you think this movie should be released on DVD. Maybe it would help if a whole lot of us (that loved the movie) put in our vote. I personally think the movie is AWESOME!

I saw this movie 20 years ago and I still laugh out loud every time I watch it. It's a wonderful comedy with clever dialogue and a twisty plot. This has to be one of my all time favorites!

I'd love to see it on DVD, too!

Still hilarious after all this year...althought the French remake is great (and has been released on DVD) ....the original one should be released....please.....

WHY NOT????? I AGREE THIS MOVIE DESERVES TO BE ON DVD!!!!
AS DOES DEBBIE AND GLENN'S OTHER ROMANTIC COMEDY "IT STARTED WITH A KISS"
I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED!!!!!!
B.PETERS. AUSTRALIA

Debbie Reynolds stars as a Broadway actress married to a successful TV mystery series producer (The ever reliable Glenn Ford.The marriage is blissfully happy and prosperous until she starts being blackmailed over a series of nude photographs she posed for while still a struggling yopung actress.Ford decides to employ a device from one of his shows and decides to dispose of the villain and bury him under an item of garden furniture -the Gazebo of thr title .Complications ensue when he kills the wrong man -or does he ?

This is the sort of movie that is fun without ever being outrageously funny .It only really becomes laugh out loud hilarious when the murder is being planned and throughout the picture I was smiling a lot without ever really laughing out loud .

Reynolds and Ford give likeable performances but the movie is stolen from under their noses by a parade of insouciant veterans like John McGiver,Dora Melende and Martin Landau .There is a pleasing musical interlude from Reynolds with the song Something Called Love and the experienced George Marshall directs with the appropriate lightness of touch for the material

The movie is a long way from being a classic but most people will have a good time watching it

It 's useless to talk about the ominous presence of the Noir film in the Fifties. But George Marshall dared to make an adroit leap with this smart script, about blackmail and murder, even if there is no victim.

But the rest runs for you; it would be a sin to make another allusion around this sympathetic script supported by fine performances. Go for this and enjoy it over and over.

A really funny movie - entertaining
without apologizing