The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)
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Heavy on slapstick and light on the more subtle forms of humor, this standard comedy by Frank Tashlin is still an amusing junket with Danny Kaye at the forefront as Ernie Klenk, a bumbling employee of the Diner's Club credit card company. Ernie has his hands full trying to manage the new computers (maybe they were all new at this point in time) and a bullying boss. His job is to okay the credit line of new customers and after he does just that with Foots Pulardos (Telly Savalas) he may have made his last serious mistake. Foots is facing trial for tax evasion and when he discovers that he and Ernie have an odd physical trait in common, he hits upon a scheme to fake his own death by immolating most of the hapless employees and then escaping the country disguised as Ernie. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Danny Kaye - Ernie Klenk
- Martha Hyer - Lucy
- Everett Sloane - Martindale
- Howard Caine - Bassanio
- Jay Novello - Mooseghian
- Ronald Long - Minister
- Cliff Carnell - Buzzy
- Carol Dixon - Little Girl
- Dorothy Neumann - Spinster
- Cara Williams - Sugar Pye
- Telly Savalas - Foots Pularcios
- Kaye Stevens - Bea Frampton
- George Kennedy - George
- Ann Morgan Guilbert - Ella Trask
- Mark Tobin - Quas
- Edmund Williams - Jerry Markus
- John Newton - Father
- Harry Dean Stanton - First Beatnik
- Director(s):
- Frank Tashlin
- Writer(s):
- William Peter Blatty
- Producer(s):
- Bill Bloom
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