The Tiger Makes Out

The Tiger Makes Out

Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Produced by George Justin
Eli Wallach(uncredited)
Anne Jackson(uncredited)
Screenplay by Murray Schisgal
Based on The Tiger
1963 play 
by Murray Schisgal
Starring Eli Wallach
Anne Jackson
Music by Shorty Rogers
Cinematography Arthur J. Ornitz
Edited by Robert C. Jones
Production
company
Elan Productions
Distributed by Columbia Pictures (1967, original) Sony Pictures (2014, DVD)
Release dates
  • September 18, 1967 (New York City)
Running time
 94 minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Tiger Makes Out is a 1967 comedy film about a kidnapper and his unintended victim, starring Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson and directed by Arthur Hiller. This is Dustin Hoffman's film debut.

Plot

Loser Ben Harris (Eli Wallach), an alienated mailman, decides to get a girl the only way he can — by kidnapping her. Putting his plan into operation one rainy night, he spots an attractive young woman. He races ahead of her and prepares an ambush. However, his would-be target finds shelter from the downpour and he ends up pulling a bag down over Gloria Fiske (Anne Jackson) instead. When he carries her back to his basement apartment and removes the bag, he is dumbfounded to find he has captured a middle-aged housewife. With no alternative, he makes do with the person he has caught, but she proves to be not quite what he envisaged.

Cast

DVD

The Tiger Makes Out was released to DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on August 5, 2014 via its Choice Collection DVD-on-demand service as a Region 1 DVD.

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