Don't Drink the Water | 
 enlarge | Actors: Ted Bessel, Michael Constantine, Joan Delaney, Jackie Gleason, Phil Leeds
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 18517
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 100
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 21817
UPC: 012236218173
EAN: 0012236218173
ASIN: B00127RAHG
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Release Date: March 18, 2008
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Product Description
In this slapstick comedy of errors the Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in communist "Bulgaria." Hollander leaves the plane to take pictures which result in this caterer being mistakenly accused of spying. Chased by "Bulgarian" soldiers they are rushed to the American Embassy where their "political asylum" begins to feel more like a comedic "insane asylum" because of the ambassador's inept son who was left in charge. System Requirements:Running Time: 100 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/SLAPSTICK Rating: NR UPC: 012236218173 Manufacturer No: 21817
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Forty Year old Water never tasted so sweet February 18, 2008
36 out of 38 found this review helpful
What can you say to a forty year old comedy that seem as funny today as it did then. Don't Drink the Water is still a gem of a film. Water's screenplay was written by Woody Allen. It has all the trapping the Allen himself would use in his future screenplays which he would direct. The film is character driven and not action driven, something Allen did in the films in the beginning of his career.
This is the basic plot of the story . The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane has to take a forced landing in Bulgaria. The Hollanders (Jackie Gleason in his best role pre-Smokey and the Bandit role and Estelle Parsons) leave the plane to take a few pictures. This results in accusations of The Hollander's and their daughter as spies. On the lam from the Bulgarian soldiers, they take refuge in the American Embassy under the protection of the absent ambassador's hapless son (Ted Bessell).
So, if you want great laughes get this film. I suggest this film over the Don't Drink the Water film with Woody Allen playing the Gleason role and Micheal J Fox playing the Ambassor's son
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
FINALLY! January 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Thank you Lion's Gate for acquiring the rights to Avco-Embassy's 'Don't Drink the Water'! I have been waiting for a very long time for this title to come to DVD and this March it finally will! In its original SCOPE widescreen presentation no less!
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