The Glass Bottom Boat

1966

Action / Comedy / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 5215 5.2K

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Plot summary

Bruce, the owner of a aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets?


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May 19, 2019 at 08:45 AM

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Doris Day as Jennifer Nelson
George Tobias as Mr. Fenimore
Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo
Rod Taylor as Bruce Templeton
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by moonspinner55 9 / 10

First-class comedy and romance

Is this Doris Day's best movie? Probably not, but it's one of her funniest pictures from this era--more so than any of her successful "bedroom comedies" of the decade. Fashionably advertised as a spy comedy--it's really not (there's some spy stuff late in the film)--it features our Doris as a kooky widow with a menagerie of pets who spends her nights at school (some of her classes are ballet and map-making!) and her days as an aerospace tour guide. On the weekends, she dons a mermaid's tail and swims beneath her father's vessel. Doris is very down-to-the-earth here, never too-cute. I loved the warmly feminine feel she gives to the song "Soft As The Starlight", and the lovely look on her face after Rod Taylor kisses her for the first time. The slapstick is raucous and noisy, yet there's a big laugh when Paul Lynde follows Doris into the powder room dressed in drag, or when Doris makes a date with two different men for a romantic evening, and the men are the ones who end up (innocently) in bed together (Dick Martin says to Edward Andrews, "Do you wanna meet early and pick out the furniture?"). An exceptional '60s bauble: plush, breezy, essentially brainless, but one that makes for a great couple of hours. ***1/2 from ****

Reviewed by MartinHafer 2 / 10

The first Doris Day film I simply couldn't finish...it's THAT bad.

I love Doris Day films and have seen nearly all of them. However, despite enjoying her in many movies, I simply couldn't make myself finish THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT because it was horribly written and ignored the things that made her other comedies worth seeing. Instead of likeable characters in silly situations, here it comes off almost like a Three Stooges film merged with a Doris Day flick merged with a kooky sitcom! Pratfalls galore, slapstick, goofy sound effects and low-brow humor abound and you see none of the brilliance of her good comedies (such as PILLOW TALK and BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON) in this annoying film. It was so unlike her other films in tone that about 2/3 of the way through it, I simply turned it off...it was that bad. Painfully unfunny and all wrong for the wonderful actress. Combining this with a strange plot involving NASA and Soviet spies and you can see why this was among her last films. Painfully unfunny from start to finish.

Reviewed by bkoganbing 7 / 10

Vladimir, Answer the Phone

Just think that if Doris Day had not for some reason named her dog, Vladimir there might have been no plot at all for this Frank Tashlin comedy.

That might have been bad because this was the best of Doris Day's films in the late sixties as she was beginning a downward drop in her box office appeal. The Glass Bottom Boat was the second film she did with Rod Taylor as co-star and the first of two she did with Frank Tashlin as director. And this one was the best product in both associations.

Doris works in public relations at a space lab in California where scientist Rod Taylor is developing new stuff for the Defense Department and NASA. She also doubles and helps her dad Arthur Godfrey on his glass bottom boat tourist vehicle. One of the things I like best about The Glass Bottom Boat is Doris sings again on screen, once in a nice duet with Arthur Godfrey on his ever present ukulele. She also sings her most famous song, Que Sera Sera once again for a new generations of film fans.

One thing about Doris's later films, she always had excellent supporting casts and this one is loaded with some very funny people like, Edward Andrews, John McGiver, Paul Lynde, Dom DeLuise, Dick Martin, George Tobias, and Alice Pearce. They all fill roles that you would expect from them.

The Glass Bottom Boat has Rod Taylor concerned with plant security in regard to his top secret work. An overzealous security guard played by Paul Lynde overhears Doris call her dog on the phone. What she does is that in order to give the pooch some exercise during the day she calls her own number, counts the rings and then says something to the unanswered phone. It's for the dog to get exercise because he runs around like a maniac when the phone rings.

From that we deduce that Doris is a Soviet spy and the real CIA in the person of Eric Fleming is called in. This was Fleming's last big screen appearance before he was drowned on location in Peru. A very sad end to a career that might have been the equal of his Rawhide co-star, Clint Eastwood.

Seeing Paul Lynde in drag, questioning an inept spy played by Dom DeLuise is worth seeing this film alone.

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