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The Tiger Makes Out
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Wikipedia article
'The Tiger Makes Out' is a 1967 American black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. The plot concerns a kidnapper and his unintended victim. It marked Dustin Hoffman's film debut.
Plot
Loser Ben Harris (Eli Wallach), an alienated Greenwich Village mailman, decides to get a girl the only way he canby kidnapping her. Putting his plan into operation one rainy night, he spots an attractive young woman. He races ahead of her and prepares an ambush. However, his would-be target finds shelter from the downpour and he ends up pulling a bag down over Gloria Fiske (Anne Jackson) instead. When he carries her back to his basement apartment and removes the bag, he is dumbfounded to find he has captured a middle-aged housewife. With no alternative, he makes do with the person he has caught, but she proves to be not quite what he envisaged.
Cast
* Eli Wallach as Benjamin "Ben" Harris
* Anne Jackson as Gloria Fiske
* Bob Dishy as Jerome "Jerry" Fiske
* John Harkins as Leo
* Ruth White as Edna Kelly
* Roland Wood as Tom Kelly
* Rae Allen as Beverly
* Sudie Bond as Miss Lane
* David Burns as Louie Ratner
* Jack Fletcher as Pawnbroker
* Bibi Osterwald as Theodora Ratner
* Charles Nelson Reilly as Mr. HenryRegistrar
* Frances Sternhagen as Woman on Bus
* Elizabeth Wilson as Receptionist
* Kim August as Toni the Songbird
* Alice Beardsley as Kentucky Neighbor
* Mariclare Costello as Rosi
* David Doyle as MartyHousing Clerk
* Dustin Hoffman as Hap
* Michele Kesten as Waitress
* James Luisi as Pete Coppola
* Remak Ramsay as Housing Guard
* Sherman Raskin as Red Schwartzkopf
* John Ryan as Toni's Escort
* Edgar Stehli as Old Man
* Oren Stevens as Policeman
DVD
'The Tiger Makes Out' was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on August 5, 2014, via its Choice Collection DVD-on-demand service as a Region 1 DVD.
See also
*List of American films of 1967
References
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