The Glass Bottom Boat

: "This article is about the 1966 film. For the actual type of boat, see Glass bottom boat".Infobox Film
name = The Glass Bottom Boat


director = Frank Tashlin
producer = Everett Freeman
Martin Melcher
writer = Everett Freeman
starring = Doris Day
Rod Taylor
Arthur Godfrey
music = Frank De Vol
editing = John McSweeney Jr.
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = June 9, 1966
runtime = 110 min.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0060463
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"The Glass Bottom Boat", also known as "The Spy in Lace Panties", is a 1966 romantic comedy film that is also considered a film musical. The film stars Doris Day and Rod Taylor.

Plot

Axel Nordstrom (Arthur Godfrey) operates a glass-bottom boat tourist concession in the waters of California's Catalina Island. His daughter, Jennifer Nelson (Day), occasionally helps out by donning a mermaid costume and swimming under the boat for the passengers' amusement. She accidentally meets Bruce Templeton (Taylor) when Bruce's fishing hook snags her costume and he reels in her mermaid tail, leaving an irate Jennifer bobbing bottomless in the water. She later discovers that Bruce is the big boss at her place of work (a NASA research lab). Bruce recognizes Jennifer and, as a ruse, hires her to be his "biographer" in an attempt to win her affections. There's one problem: the facility's security chief Homer Cripps (Paul Lynde) becomes convinced that she's a Russian spy and, to prove his suspicions, has her placed under surveillance. When Jennifer catches on to the scheme, she decides to turn the tables on the bumbling Cripps and those who believe his allegations.

Cast

This movie also stars Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, Eric Fleming, Dom DeLuise, Elisabeth Fraser, Dick Martin, George Tobias, Alice Pearce, Ellen Corby, Dee J. Thompson, Richard Alden and an uncredited cameo by Robert Vaughn of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." fame.

DVD

The 2005 DVD release includes three vintage featurettes ("Catalina Island", "Every Girl's Dream", and "NASA") as well as the Oscar-Winning cartoon "The Dot and the Line".

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