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Boys' Night Out (1962)

Boys' Night Out poster
Directed by
Michael Gordon
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 52m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three married men rent an apartment with a kept woman to escape their home lives. The woman is actually a sociology student studying male fantasies.

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What happens

Boys' Night Out is a 1962 American romantic comedy film starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and featuring Howard Duff, Janet Blair, Howard Morris, Patti Page, Anne Jeffreys, Jessie Royce Landis and Oscar Homolka. The picture was directed by Michael Gordon and was written by Ira Wallach based on a story by Arne Sultan and Marvin Worth. The film is about three men who are looking to meet needs that are not being satisfied in their marriages. Their bachelor friend arranges for a "kept woman" who is in reality a sociology student studying the fantasies of contemporary American men. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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