John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

A Wild Whirl of Wacky Fun!

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.

1965

1h 36min

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Top Billed Cast

Shirley MacLaine
Jenny
Peter Ustinov
Fawz
Richard Crenna
John Goldfarb
Jim Backus
Whitepaper
Scott Brady
Sakalakis
Fred Clark
Overreach
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Guz
Harry Morgan
Sarajevo
Patrick Adiarte
Ammud
Richard Deacon
Maginot
Jerome Cowan
Brinkley
Leon Askin
Samir
David Lewis
Cronkite
Milton Frome
Air Force General
Charles Lane
Editor
Jerry Orbach
Pinkerton
Jackie Coogan
Father Ryan
Nai Bonet
Specialty Dancer
Sultanna
Specialty Dancer
Dick Wilson
Frobish (uncredited)

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