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The Honey Pot

Year:
Duration:
Italy:125 min | UK:150 min | 132 min (TCM print)
Genres:
Comedy | Crime
IMDB rate:
7
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1967-05-22
Filming Locations: Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Cast
Actor
Character
Rex Harrison
Cecil Sheridan Fox
Susan Hayward
Mrs. Lone Star Crockett Sheridan
Cliff Robertson
William McFly
Edie Adams
Merle McGill
Maggie Smith
Sarah Watkins
Adolfo Celi
Inspector Rizzi
Hugh Manning
Volpone
David Dodimead
Mosca
Herschel Bernardi
Oscar Ludwig (scenes deleted)
Antonio Corevi
Tailor (scenes deleted)
Cy Grant
Revenue Agent (scenes deleted)
Frank Latimore
Revenue Agent (scenes deleted)
Massimo Serato
The Pretender (scenes deleted)
Carlos Alberto Valles
Assistant Tailor (scenes deleted)
Raymond Burr
Himself, as Perry Mason (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mimmo Poli
Cook (uncredited)
Luigi Scavran
Massimo (uncredited)
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Trivia
Joseph L. Mankiewicz first script contained several novelties that never made it to the screen. Among them was a series of memos from a theater-chain owner (made to look as though they had been slipped in front of the projector) that commented on the action taking place. Also, there was to have been a running argument (resembling backstage squabbling) between a theater manager and the actor playing Cecil over such things as lines and cues.
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After Fox dies, McFly reveals that he was broke and that all his furniture was rented from movie studios. He lifts a chair to show its owner's name under the seat: Cinecittà - where most of The Honey Pot was filmed.
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Anne Bancroft was originally cast as Merle McGill, but she turned it down for a stage role.
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Quotes
William McFly: An actor's gratitude is, at best, a mirage.
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Fox: Nothing like gold to pass the time. It is even the color of time... Gold. How little most people value time, little people. Like everything else, they will choose what's more, not what's better. Even time, they will pray to live 100, long, miserable years and feel cheated if they had say 50 of the best. Quantity yes, quality no. Venice is tiny and precious. Los Angeles is gigantic and terrifying. Who wants it? Most people, that's who. There's good time and bad time, you know, the clocks don't give a damn what time they measure. We do. We special ones. We slow down for the good. We sip it second by second like great wine. We speed up the bad. The little people, chumps, swallow time like hamburger. One hundred years of well done hamburger, they will all settle for that. If I were to tell you that for me, the next 10 minutes of my life will be fuller and richer than the next 10 years for any chump in London, Paris, Rome, New York, or Bangkok, would you know what the hell I was talking about?
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Merle McGill: I guess it must be hard for you to understand, Inspector, a man like me and Cecil Fox.
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Photos from cast
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