Sixties Cheesecake Dance No. 12
PLEASE READ THIS - Here is the wonderful multiple bellydancer sequence from "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home" (1965), featuring Shirley McLaine in a quasi-bellydance routine. In this lame farcical comedy, two Americans, a female reporter (Shirley McLaine) and a pilot (Richard Crenna), are trapped in a desert kingdom and are conspiring to help the Arabian chief's football team beat Notre Dame, with the assistance of the CIA. Notre Dame found this spoof so offensive they sued in court.
The film was directed by J Lee Thompson, who also directed "The Guns of Navarone" (1961), and the original "Cape Fear" (1962). Peter Ustinov played the zany Arabian chief, and Wilfred Hyde White is great as the Arabian chief's principal advisor. Terri Garr has a small role as a harem girl and that's James Brolin struggling with the spicy stuffed mongoose. The two featured bellydancers are Sultanna, who appears first, and Nai Bonet, who follows.
The writer of this turkey, was William Peter Blatty, who wrote both the novel and screenplay of "The Exorcist" (1975).
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