Summaries

Jay Menlow is jilted at the altar by his fiancée, Cynthia Hampton. His pal, Ross Kingsley, persuades him to use his reserved-in-advance accommodations at the Boca Roca Hotel (honeymooners only) in lieu of the doomed honeymoon. Ross will accompany him to bolster him up and Cynthia will soon beg to have him back. Ross' gesture is not quite as altruistic as it appears. He has been fooling around with Sherry Nugent, his employer Mr. Sampson's girlfriend, and figures that a brief exodus from New York and his boss is in his own best interest. However, Mr. Sampson shows up followed by his ever loving wife who has decided to find out just what goes on on her husband "business" trips. Complications, including schemes to avoid the hotel's "no bachelors allowed" rule also follow.—Les Adams <[email protected]>

In New York City, Jay Menlow is left just before the altar by who was his fiancée Cynthia Hampton in her fear that too much of his best friend and six year roommate Ross Kingsley, a woman chaser - with the women the curvier and dumber, the better - has rubbed off on him. To show up Cynthia, Ross, an executive for Adelphi Aluminum Products, which produces kitchenware, convinces Jay to take him on what was supposed to be his and Cynthia's week long honeymoon at the Boca Roca Resort Hotel in the Caribbean so that they can chase girls on what Ross had learned is a region comprised of ten single female tourists to every male. Ross does so solely for his own benefit and not as he states for Jay to help him lick his wounds as a friend. Ross also doesn't tell his boss, Mr. Sampson, that he is ditching attending a housewares convention in Atlanta for this vacation. It isn't until they are able to check in at the resort in a misunderstanding that they learn that the Boca Roca is exclusively for honeymooners, which means no single females. Just before they are ready to leave upon this discovery that Ross finds the woman of his dreams, Lynn Jenley, the resort's social director who just happens to be a friend of Cynthia's. Ross staying at the resort means that a still heartbroken Jay also has to stay in the reservation being under his name. As Ross pursues Lynn while trying to convince Jay to stay under whatever circumstances, usually using lies and manipulation, a number of people associated to Ross and/or Jay descend on the resort to complicate matters, arguably most notably Sampson and his mistress, Sherry Nugent, who just happens to be an old girlfriend of Ross'.—Huggo

Details

Keywords
  • slapstick comedy
  • fiance fiancee relationship
  • hotel
  • sex comedy
  • scheme
Genres
  • Comedy
Release date Jun 2, 1964
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Approved
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations 390 Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Production companies Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 29m
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Synopsis

When Jay Menlow (Robert Morse) breaks up with his fiancée, Cynthia (Anne Helm), just before his wedding, he decides to use his honeymoon accommodations anyway. He takes along Ross Kingsley (Robert Goulet), a bachelor, who was to have been his best man. Their arrival upsets the tropical hotel's management because guests are usually restricted to honeymooning couples. Ross, however, manages to date the hotel's only single girl, Lynn (Nancy Kwan), the social director. Jay, on the other hand, is bored and wants to patch up his quarrel with Cynthia, but Ross manages to intercept their calls to each other and prevent a reconciliation. Complications arise when Rosss boss Sampson arrives at the hotel with a beautiful girl, Sherry (Jill St. John ), followed shortly by Mrs. Sampson (Elvia Allman ) and then Cynthia.

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