Man's Favorite Sport? is a 1964 comedy starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss. Released by Universal Pictures, the movie was directed and produced by Howard Hawks.
Hawks intended this movie to be a homage to his own 1938 screwball classic Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and unsuccessfully tried to get the original stars to reprise their roles.
The story concerns Roger Willoughby (Hudson), a well-known fishing expert who w...
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Man's Favorite Sport? is a 1964 comedy starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss. Released by Universal Pictures, the movie was directed and produced by Howard Hawks.
Hawks intended this movie to be a homage to his own 1938 screwball classic Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and unsuccessfully tried to get the original stars to reprise their roles.
The story concerns Roger Willoughby (Hudson), a well-known fishing expert who works for Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Abigail Page (Prentiss) is a brash and flighty public relations woman. Page is determined to secure Willoughby's participation in a prestigious fishing tournament, only to discover that Willoughby is a phony—he's never fished before in his life.
By threatening to reveal his horrible secret, Abigail forces Roger to fake his way through the tournament. Their schemes to maintain the artifice provide the impetus for the film. Willoughby proves himself to be supremely inept: he cannot fish, cannot set up a tent,...
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