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Mister Buddwing is a american film of genre Drama directed by Delbert Mann released in USA on 11 october 1966 with James Garner
Mister Buddwing (1966)
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Add to a movie listMister Buddwing is a 1966 American film drama directed by Delbert Mann and starring James Garner .
The film depicts a well-dressed man who finds himself on a bench in Central Park with no idea who he is. He proceeds to wander around Manhattan meeting women (Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross, Angela Lansbury) as he desperately tries to figure out his own identity.
Based on the 1964 novel Buddwing by Evan Hunter, the evocatively shot black-and-white drama with a lively jazz musical score was written by Dale Wasserman.
Synopsis
Waking up on a New York park bench, a man's mind is a total blank. He has no identification on him, just a slip of paper in his pocket with a phone number on it.Actors
James Garner
(Mister Buddwing)
Jean Simmons
(The Blonde)
Suzanne Pleshette
(Fiddle Corwin)
Angela Lansbury
(Gloria)
Katharine Ross
(Janet)
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