Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9774 in VHS
• Released on: 1994-03-02
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Black & White, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

Customer Reviews

Clever Comedy with a "Killer" Twist
Glenn Ford is the producer of a television mystery series who attempts to protect his Broadway star wife (Debbie Reynolds) from a blackmailer--and decides to eliminate the blackmailer via a murder plot suggested by his own series. The result is a comic chaos involving a couple of gansters, a peculiar pigeon, and the gazebo his wife is having built on their country property.

Based on the play of the same name, THE GAZEBO strives for a mix of broad farce, screwball comedy, and sprightly sophistocation--and by and large brings it off quite well. I have never been a great fan of Glenn Ford, but he manages both the broad physical comedy and the clever dialogue of this film with equal ease. Debbie Reynolds is also quite good in the role of the stage-star wife, and she and Ford have a surprisingly successful chemistry. Although the humor is more smile-and-chuckle than laugh-out-loud, THE GAZEBO is a well made, well acted, and quite enjoyable. Recommended.

Hilarious!
There haven't been many American film comedies that really make me laugh out loud. I've usually had to turn to the Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, British movies of the 50s for that. But The Gazebo is an exception. It's an American comedy with that whacky, mad-in-a-sane-world British spirit.

Glenn Ford keeps up a frenetic pace as he tries to dispose of a dead body without letting his wife know what he's up to. He encounters one hilarious obstacle after another in simply trying to rid himself of the thing.

Debbie Reynolds doesn't know what to think when she asks Ford what happened to their shower curtain and he feverishly replies, "Well, a man collecting for Hungarian Relief came to the door, and I gave it to him."

You know any movie that contains the quizzical line, "You donated our shower curtain to Hungarian Relief?" - has GOT to be funny. This is a gem that deserves to be put into wider DVD distribution SOON!

DVD PLEASE !!!!!
I agree with the previous viewer---this needs to be on DVD. Why has so few of Debbie Reynolds films been converted to DVD. Someone really needs to get started on them. I just love her classic movies and I'm anxiously waiting for them including "My Six Loves" which never even made it to VHS. Thanks