Goodbye Charlie | |
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Directed by | Vincente Minnelli |
Screenplay by | Harry Kurnitz |
Based on | Goodbye Charlie 1959 play by George Axelrod |
Produced by | David Weisbart |
Starring | Tony Curtis Debbie Reynolds Pat Boone |
Cinematography | Milton R. Krasner |
Edited by | John W. Holmes |
Music by | André Previn |
Color process | Color by DeLuxe |
Production company | Venice Productions |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3.5 million[1] |
Box office | $3,700,000 (US/ Canada rentals)[2] |
Goodbye Charlie is a 1964 American comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds and Pat Boone. The CinemaScope film is about a callous womanizer who gets his just reward after a jealous husband kills him. It is adapted from George Axelrod's 1959 play Goodbye, Charlie. The play also provided the basis for the 1991 film Switch, with Ellen Barkin and Jimmy Smits.