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Walk Don't Run (sometimes titled as Walk, Don't Run in U.S. promotional materials), was a 1966 film comedy set in Tokyo during the Olympic Games in 1964. It marked the last appearance by Cary Grant in a feature film. It is a remake of the 1943 film The More the Merrier.
Plot
Sir William Rutland (Grant) is an important English businessman who arrives in the city a few days early and is caught up in the housing shortage caused by the Games. He manages to talk Christine Easton (Samantha Eggar) into subletting her apartment, even though she had advertised for a female roommate.
Rutland then generously sublets half of his half of the very cramped space to American Olympian Steve Davis (Jim Hutton). Davis falls in love with Easton, but she is engaged to boringly dependable British diplomat Julius P. Haversack (John Standing).
Davis repeatedly refuses to reveal what sport he is competing in. Rutland meddles in the young couple's romantic troubles, and the movie culminates in his suddenly appearing in his underwear race walking along with Davis, trying to heal the breach between the young lovers.
In several comic scenes of Rutland making coffee, he shows he is a well-to-do person who has obviously never had to make his own coffee, filling the basket to the brim, then leveling it off with his hand.
Trivia
In the movie, Cary Grant makes references to other movies he has appeared in. While making coffee, he whistles the tune of the theme from Charade with Audrey Hepburn, and while showering, he sings the theme to An Affair to Remember with Deborah Kerr.
During a scene which features some of the cast watching TV, a very brief snippet of The Man From Laramie is seen, with James Stewart dubbed into Japanese.
External links
"Walk Don't Run"