40 Pounds of Trouble

40 Pounds of Trouble
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Norman Jewison
Produced by	Stan Margulies
Screenplay by	Marion Hargrove
Based on	Little Miss Marker by Damon Runyon
Starring	Tony Curtis Suzanne Pleshette Larry Storch
Music by	Mort Lindsey
Cinematography	Joseph MacDonald
Edited by	Marjorie Fowler
Production company	Curtis Enterprises
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	31 December 1962 (USA)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2,750,000 (US/ Canada)^[1]

40 Pounds of Trouble is a 1962 film directed by Norman Jewison that marks his directorial debut. The film was shot on location at Disneyland and Lake Tahoe.^[2]^[3] It is a retelling of Damon Runyon's story Little Miss Marker.^[4]

Plot

Tony Curtis plays a casino manager who must take care of an 8-year-old girl.

Principal cast

Actor	Role
Tony Curtis	Steve McCluskey
Suzanne Pleshette	Chris Lockwood
Larry Storch	Floyd
Howard Morris	Julius
Edward Andrews	Herman
Stubby Kaye	Cranston
Warren Stevens	Swing
Kevin McCarthy	Louie Blanchard
Phil Silvers	Bernie "the Butcher" Friedman

Critical reception

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times sums up the film:

“

40 Pounds of Trouble is witless remake of a Runyon Story... Blunt promotion, thin humor fill script... The trouble with 40 Pounds of Trouble is that it is just too hackneyed and dull.^[4]

”

References

↑ "Top Rental Features of 1963", Variety, 8 January 1964 p 71. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057069/locations
↑ Gettell, Oliver (May 23, 2015). "'Tomorrowland' and 5 more Disneyland movies to mark the park's 60th". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
1 2 BOSLEY CROWTHER Special to The New York Times. (1963-01-24). "Movie Review - Sodoma e Gomorra - Screen: '40 Pounds of Trouble':Film Is Witless Remake of a Runyon Story Blunt Promotion, Thin Humor Fill Script 'Sodom and Gomorrah' - NYTimes.com". Movies.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-01-29.

External links

40 Pounds of Trouble at the Internet Movie Database
40 Pounds of Trouble at the TCM Movie Database
40 Pounds of Trouble at AllMovie

Films directed by Norman Jewison

40 Pounds of Trouble (1962)
The Thrill of It All (1963)
Send Me No Flowers (1964)
The Art of Love (1965)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Gaily, Gaily (1969)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
Rollerball (1975)
F.I.S.T. (1978)
...And Justice for All (1979)
Best Friends (1982)
A Soldier's Story (1984)
Agnes of God (1985)
Moonstruck (1987)
In Country (1989)
Other People's Money (1991)
Only You (1994)
Bogus (1996)
The Hurricane (1999)
The Statement (2003)

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