Quick, Before It Melts
1964 film directed by Delbert Mann
- October 5, 1964 (1964-10-05)
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Quick, Before It Melts is a 1964 Panavision and Metrocolor comedy film directed by Delbert Mann, written by Dale Wasserman, starring Robert Morse, George Maharis, and Anjanette Comer and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was based on a novel of the same title by Philip Benjamin.
Plot
American magazine reporter Oliver Cannon gets an assignment to a naval expedition far from home by his boss, Harvey Sweigert, who is also the father of Oliver's fiancée, Sharon. He has never broken a big story, so Sweigert wants to see what kind of reporter he really is.
First stop is New Zealand, where photographer Pete Santelli, also along on the trip, quickly develops a romantic attraction to a local girl named Diana. And a half-Maori beauty named Tiare catches the interest of Oliver.
When the journalists move on to Antarctica, it becomes clear that a friendly Soviet citizen, Mikhail, whom they call Mickey, might be persuaded to defect. Women are invited to join the expedition, including Diana and Tiare, and the latter ends up falling in love with Mickey. Their romance and his defection is news, but a naval admiral tries to prevent Oliver from reporting his scoop to the world. Oliver shows what he's made of, then returns home to marry Sharon.
Cast
- Robert Morse as Oliver Cannon
- George Maharis as Pete Santelli
- Howard St. John as Harvey Sweigert
- Yvonne Craig as Sharon Sweigert
- Anjanette Comer as Tiare
- Janine Gray as Diana
- Michael Constantine as Mikhail
- James Gregory as the Admiral
External links
- Quick, Before It Melts at AllMovie
- Quick, Before It Melts at IMDb
- Quick, Before It Melts at the TCM Movie Database
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Works directed by Delbert Mann
- Marty (1955)
- The Bachelor Party (1957)
- Desire Under the Elms (1958)
- Separate Tables (1958)
- Middle of the Night (1959)
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
- Lover Come Back (1961)
- The Outsider (1961)
- That Touch of Mink (1962)
- A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
- Quick, Before It Melts (1964)
- Dear Heart (1964)
- Mister Buddwing (1966)
- Fitzwilly (1967)
- The Pink Jungle (1968)
- Kidnapped (1971)
- Birch Interval (1976)
- Night Crossing (1982)
- Heidi (1968)
- David Copperfield (1969)
- Jane Eyre (1970)
- She Waits (1972)
- No Place to Run (1972)
- The Man Without a Country (1973)
- A Girl Named Sooner (1975)
- Breaking Up (1978)
- Home to Stay (1978)
- Torn Between Two Lovers (1979)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
- The Member of the Wedding (1982)
- The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983)
- The Last Days of Patton (1986)
- Ironclads (1991)
- Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992)
- Incident in a Small Town (1994)
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