Man’s Favorite Sport?

film by Hawks [1964]

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Man's Favorite Sport? is a 1964 American comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Rock Hudson. The film centers on a fishing expert who is pressured by his boss to enter a fishing competition, despite having no actual experience in the sport. This comedic premise leads to a series of humorous situations as he attempts to maintain his facade. The movie is noted for its lighthearted tone and Hudson's performance, which was compared to that of Cary Grant at his best.12

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In the comedy Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964), Rock Hudson played a role in the Grant vein of an expert department-store fly caster who is sent by his boss to enter a fishing competition—a sport he knows nothing about. Red Line 7000 (1965) was Hawks’s disappointing return to the…
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In the comedy Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964), Rock Hudson played a role in the Grant vein of an expert department-store fly caster who is sent by his boss to enter a fishing competition—a sport he knows nothing about. Red Line 7000 (1965) was Hawks’s disappointing return to the…
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Rock Hudson
…farces, notably director Howard Hawks’s Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964), in which Hudson delivered a performance compared by critics to Cary Grant at his best.
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…farces, notably director Howard Hawks’s Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964), in which Hudson delivered a performance compared by critics to Cary Grant at his best.
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