edwagreen Just ridiculous as Shirley MacLaine mouths the words of the song which is the title of this absolutely asinine film. MacLaine sings the end of the song as the credits roll at the end and we are grateful that an ending has been reached.The best part of the film is the entourage of the stars of yesteryear who had supporting roles, Richard Deacon, Fred Clark, Harry Morgan, Wilfrid Hyde-White and others.Peter Ustinov as the bumbling mid-eastern King mumbles along and talks as if he is delivering a liturgy. Richard Crenna would have been better off if he displayed his Walter Denton accent from Our Miss Brooks. He is the spy who lands in Ustinov's land and is made to improve on the king's hopeless football team.With MacLaine along as the reporter, there are few laughs but plenty of nonsense.I just adored when Ustinov kept asking the Crenna character if he were Jewish. Ironically, Ustinov, who was Jewish in real life, sounds Jewish all the way, but the film is a complete farce.

jfarms1956 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home is a movie that the whole family can watch and will appeal to older children until the age of 14 and adults 30 and up. Those in-between might not enjoy it as much. It is an amusing movie with little plot. The acting is good. The humor is good and old school. It is a prime time movie. However, there is little substance to the movie. Yet, there is not supposed to be any, just funny. There are a lot of good actors/actresses in the movie to make it funny and serious enough to stay funny and silly. Laughter is the best medicine, or so they say -- so enjoy this medicine for the soul. It is a crazy film. Bring plenty of popcorn and family or friends to enjoy this old school funny movie. No depth, no substance, just crazy laughter.

moonspinner55 When you think of zany Hollywood comedies, the names of director J. Lee Thompson and screenwriter William Peter Blatty probably don't immediately come to mind. "John Goldfarb" is a with-it satire of politics, fads, football, feminism and other topical issues which audiences of 1965 preferred to be without. Richard Crenna plays a piloting spy (nicknamed "Wrong Way Goldfarb") who thinks he's bailed out over the U.S.S.R.; instead, it's an Arab country ruled by gadget-crazy nut Peter Ustinov. Meanwhile, magazine writer Shirley MacLaine (who also warbles the title song!) has infiltrated Ustinov's harem, apparently trying to get the scoop of the century (but on what, I couldn't figure out). Too many targets and sight-gags render the loosely-hinged plot irrelevant, however some of MacLaine's shrieks are good for a laugh (and she looks cute in a hot-pink two-piece). What were these talented filmmakers thinking when they hatched this rotten egg? It's just a brightly-painted doodle, but even screwball nonsense should have at least one sane person to steer the ship. The cast here is kept running back and forth, waving their arms and yelling insults, while director Thompson must've been chortling in his sleep. * from ****

lafong-2 When "Wrong Way Goldfarb", former college football player noted for running a touchdown for the other team, becomes an American U2 pilot, he, naturally has problems with his plane during a top secret mission. When he eventually crashes, its not in the U.S.S.R. of course, but the Kingdom of Fawzia (rhymes with "Saudia"). Taken "prisoner" he soon meets Jenny Ericson, undercover Strife magazine newspaperwoman, posing undercover as a Harem-girl in the King's household, to get the "low down" on Harem life for American readers.The antics in the Fawzian household with the King (Ustinov), Goldfarb (Crenna) and Jenny (MacLaine) are a kick providing opportunities for many double entendres and sexual innuendo. Half of the movie, after all, does take place inside a harem! But, the real entertainment is watching the floundering US bureaucrats deal with this delicate situation. The bickering in the state department offices about how to resolve the mess of a U2 pilot crashing inside a foreign country (when the US insists it doesn't own such planes, and if it did, they wouldn't fly over foreign countries)is outrageously funny. At one point, a "pin" is added to the crisis map of the world as part of their tracking method for "hot spots" and... but, I don't want to spoil it for you! Viewed in 2006, the 60's humor is clever and jabs fun unmercifully at ethnicity, religion, looks, race, and patriotic fervor. This is not a movie for those who cannot laugh at themselves, or others. Goldfarb's Jewishness, Jenny's iceberg sexuality, the King's sexual proclivities and toys, Harem humor, national pride - its all there.Crenna mostly plays exasperated, but, delivers with effective physical humor. MacLaine is so energized she sometimes makes you tired to watch her move; but, delivers her lines so snappily you just go with the flow while you watch her. Ustinov is his usual droll self, but, it works. Henry Morgan and Jim Backus add the most depth to the movie with their earnest yearning to do the right thing, but saddled with idiots at home and in the field (Fred Clark and Jerome Cowan). And the Fawzians in spite of still having Harems, are NOT dopes - guards make extremely astute observations on the American ambassadors (lack of )knowledge about Fawzian culture that will crack you up.The script is what holds the movie together. Its clever. Its funny. Its not politically correct. Too bad its so hard to find.