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The Honeymoon Machine is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Richard Thorpe released in USA on 16 august 1961 with Steve McQueen
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
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Add to a movie listThe Honeymoon Machine is a 1961 film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Mullaney, and Dean Jagger, based on the 1959 Broadway play The Golden Fleecing by Lorenzo Semple Jr.. In the film, three men devise a plan to win at roulette with a United States Navy computer. The scheme works until an admiral ruins their plans.
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Civilian scientist Jason Eldridge (Hutton) runs Magnetic Analyzer Computing Synchrotron (MACS), a vacuum-tube computer aboard the USS Elmira. He and his friend Lt. Ferguson Howard (McQueen) realize that, by using MACS to record a roulette table's spins over time, the computer can predict future results. Howard and LTJG Beauregard Gilliam (Mullaney) check into a Venice casino's hotel dressed as civilians with Eldridge, defying Admiral Fitch's (Jagger) order that naval officers on shore avoid the casino and wear uniforms. They plan to use signal lamps to communicate with a confederate manning MACS on the Elmira.Actors
Steve McQueen
(Lt. Ferguson 'Fergie' Howard)
Brigid Bazlen
(Julie Fitch)
Jim Hutton
(Jason Eldridge)
Paula Prentiss
(Pam Dunstan)
Dean Jagger
(Admiral Fitch)
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