High Time

film by Edwards [1960]

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The film High Time, released in 1960, was directed by Blake Edwards. It stars Bing Crosby as a widower who decides to return to college. While there, he becomes romantically involved with an instructor. The film is listed among other notable movies from 1960, such as Psycho, Spartacus, and The Magnificent Seven.12

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Blake Edwards
Films of the 1960s
Less popular was the comedy High Time (1960), in which Bing Crosby played a widower who returns to college and becomes romantically involved with an instructor. Edwards’s next project, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), was his breakthrough film and the one on which much of his reputation rests. The film was…
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Less popular was the comedy High Time (1960), in which Bing Crosby played a widower who returns to college and becomes romantically involved with an instructor. Edwards’s next project, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), was his breakthrough film and the one on which much of his reputation rests. The film was…
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