Don't Just Stand There

1968Movie⏱️ 1h 39m

Comedy

⭐ 5.3

IMDB Rating

146 votes

A young writer is sent to Europe on an assigment to finish the final chapters of a sex novel by a famous authoress who has decided to stop writing.

Director

Ron Winston

Writers

N/A

Stars

Robert Wagner, Mary Tyler Moore, Glynis Johns

Release Date

September 4, 1968

Language

English

Country

United States

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Reviews

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🎭 Top Cast

Robert Wagner

as Lawrence Colby

Mary Tyler Moore

as Martine Randall

Glynis Johns

as Sabine Manning

Harvey Korman

as Merriman Dudley

Barbara Rhoades

as Kendall Flanagan

Vincent Beck

as Painter

Joseph V. Perry

as Jean-Jacques

Stuart Margolin

as Remy

Émile Genest

as Henri

David Mauro

as Jules

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

2.35 : 1

Filming Location

Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Production

Universal Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

based on novelnovelyoungwriterpunctuation in title

🎯 Categories

Comedy

⭐ Featured Review

Madcap comedy set in Paris and filmed in Hollywood...the gregarious players help

by moonspinner55 • 2010-03-23

5/10

"Screenwriter Charles Williams adapted his own book "The Wrong Venus" about an authoress of tawdry sex novels leaving her latest bestseller unfinished--seems she was a 40-year old virgin who finally got wind of what she was writing about! Another woman, an amazon who practices Judo, was brought in to finish the book but found herself witness to a murder and was kidnapped; now, her successor (an American man who smuggles watches into Europe!), attempts to rescue her with help from a savvy actress. To say this wacky caper is overly-involved is putting it mildly. Ron Winston directs the ..."