If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
- Starring:
- Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, (more)
- Director(s):
- Mel Stuart
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- G
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. The film is a likeable satire of "packaged" European tours, where the nonplused tourists are expected to rush from one landmark to another in a breathless 18 days. Ian McShane stars as the amorous tour guide, with Suzanne Pleshette as the American department store buyer he falls for; their romance ends when Pleshette decides that the supposedly worldly McShane is too immature for her. An all-star cast, including Murray Hamilton, Peggy Cass, Pamela Britton, Marty Ingels, John Cassavetes and Vittorio De Sica, pops up in comic cameo roles. Our favorite bit: an American and German tourist, simultaneously regaling their respective wives with wildly divergent accounts of the same wartime confrontation. If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium was reworked in 1987 as a made-for-TV movie, cleverly title If It's Tuesday, It Still Must be Belgium. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 98 mins
Complete Cast of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
- Suzanne Pleshette - Samantha Perkins
- Mildred Natwick - Jenny Grant
- Sandy Baron - John Marina
- Norman Fell - Harve Blakely
- Marty Ingels - Bert Greenfield
- Luke Halpin - Bo
- Reva Rose - Irma Blakely
- Patricia Routledge - Mrs. Featherstone
- Jenny White - Dot
- Lillian Atterer - Miss Germany
- Senta Berger
- Joan Collins
- Anita Ekberg - Nightclub Performer
- Virna Lisi
- Catherine Spaak - Woman Posing for Photographer
- Mario Carotenuto - Giuseppe
- Donovan - Singer at Youth Hostel
- Ian McShane - Charlie
- Murray Hamilton - Fred Ferguson
- Michael Constantine - Jack Harmon
- Peggy Cass - Edna Ferguson
- Pamela Britton - Freda
- Aubrey Morris - Harry Dix
- Hilary Thompson - Shelly Ferguson
- Marina Berti - Gina
- Roger Six - Marcel
- Lucien Krier - Miss Luxembourg
- John Cassavetes - Card Player
- Vittorio De Sica - Shoemaker
- Ben Gazzara - Card Player
- Elsa Martinelli - Woman on Bridge
- Robert Vaughn - Photographer
- Frank Latimore - George
- Paul Esser - German Sergeant
- Director(s):
- Mel Stuart
- Writer(s):
- David Shaw
- Producer(s):
- David L. Wolper, Stan Margulies
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- G(Suitable for Children)
- Categories:
- Comedy
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