Lauren Bacall

Ruth Gordon

Sandy Dennis

Lisa Pelikan

Robert Alda

Stephen Pearlman

Steve Allie Collura

Dick O'Neill

Rick Garcia

Robert Kya-Hill

Ken Olfson

Ralph Manza

Selma Archerd

William Bassett

Joseph Benti

Steve Bluestein

Anthony Crupi

Martin Gish

Laurie Hagen

Julie Kalcheim

James Lemp

Tony Matranga

Jeff Maxwell

Johnny Oliver

Frederick Rule

Barbara Simpson

Shane Sinutko

Larry Watson

Cy Wong

George Zateslo

Jackie Cooper

Nora Ephron

Bud Austin

Dominic Frontiere

William B. Jurgensen

Jerry Dronsky

Rhonda Young

Lyle R. Wheeler

James F. Claytor Sr.

Rick Gentz

Lynn Del Kail

Hallie Smith-Simmons

Mel Efros

Daisy Gerber

David Nicksay

Robby Vandermark

Alan Robert Murray

Burdick S. Trask

George Watters II

Carl Boles

Joseph Roveto

Shirlee Strahm

Jillian Murphy

Robert Krueger

Comedy

Crime

Drama

TV Movie

Perfect Gentlemen

Bud Austin Productions

Paramount Television

CBS Productions

United States of America

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Lauren Bacall and Ruth Gordon are on good form in this daft crime caper that takes it's time to get going - but once it does, it does raise a smile or two. Bacall is the wealthy wife of an imprisoned union boss who on one of her usual jaunts to visit him encounters two similarly occupied ladies - "Sophie" (Sandy Dennis) and "Lisa" (Lisa Pelikan). Pretty soon the three are friends and realise that each of their husbands has treated them pretty badly. What to do about it - well they alight on a cunning plan to steal $1m, and to throw off any suspicion they will pretend to be men! Ruth Gordon is super, and Bacall just has to turn up to light up the screen. The story flows along well enough after a glacially slow start with far too many long scenes of a limousine on the highway, but the ending - well that's just fitting. Not bad for a television movie - bit too long, but entertaining.

English

CBS promo Perfect Gentlemen 1978