Customer Reviews

The Glass Bottom Boat

5 star:		(24)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is one of my ultimate "feel-good" movies. If I'm feeling down or blue, all I have to do is pop this into the VCR and I'm soon feeling chipper again. Just hearing the theme song can cheer me up. Maybe it's because this movie came out the year I turned 16 and it reminds me of a happier, simpler time in the U.S. Two of my favorites, Dom De Luise and Paul Lynde, are charming and hillarious as supporting cast.

I agree: this SHOULD DEFINITELY be put out in DVD in widescreen! Extra features such as an interview with and commentary by Doris Day would make this a true collector's edition. Anyone listening?

This is a movie that I watch all of the time. Jennifer Nelson (Doris Day) is a worker at the NASA center in Florida. The day before she starts work she is swimming in the ocean and Bruce Templeton (Rod Taylor) gets hold of her mermaids tail with his fishing pole and pulls it off! Well when Jennifer finds out who he really is and that he is her boss she gets really nice to him. She is then put in as his private secratery to write a book about his life! Well the head honchos find out that she is doing some funny things and they think she is a Russian Spy because she calls her dog Vladimir but they think that is her Russion CounterPart! Well the movie ends funnily! Great family movie I highly suggest it to ya'll!

I wasn't even born when this movie was made, but I grew up watching Doris Day movies on TV and just love them. I think I've seen them all, but Glass Bottom Boat, Calamity Jane, and Move Over Darling are probably my favorites. I'd like to see an entire DVD collection of Doris Day released so that I could share them with my kids.

This movie is definitly a classic comedy, the actors have fun singing and doing all kinds of antics throughout the film. Doris day and Rod taylor are at their best in this film.

Doris Day is a mermaid that is until Rod Taylor (THE TIME MACHINE [1960]) catches her suit on a fishing hook in Catalina. She lost the bottom of her costume. She does it all. She is also a tour guide for the company Rod Taylor works for. She calls her dog at home from time to time. We've got Paul Lynde as a snoopy Security Guard. After the mermaid incident, clumsy Doris and Rod become friends and he invites Doris to his home to see the space-age kitchen. No need for a woman in this kitchen as you will see. Not quite "The Jetsons".
Also in the cast is several other character actors you have seen in Doris day films. Arthur Godfrey, John mcGiver, Edward Andrews, Dom DeLuise, Elizabeth Fraser, Dick Martin and Ellen Corby. Florence Halop and Robert Vaughn in cameos.
There is also Alice Pearce and George Tobias who at that time played the snoopy married neighbors in the Bewitched tv series. Alice Pearce was the first "Gladys Kravitz" from 1964-1972. George Tobias was the realistic "Mr. Kravitz".
Doris day and Arthur Godfrey ham "Que Sara Sara".
Some scenes filmed in Avalon, Catalina Island.
Paul Lynde has a scene in "drag".

A film this good should be available on DVD in widescreen!

I have loved rod taylor since I saw him in the time machine
when I was 13 the glass bottom boat is the second time I
enjoyed him doris and rod where great! they where so funny
together. I would tell anyone who's interested,buy IT!
you won't be sorry and the entire cast will keep you
laughing through the entire film.

My wife and I both love this movie!! It has a great 1960s feel to it, back when California was still the Golden State. Doris Day, of course, is wonderful and it is great seeing her co-stars Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, Dick Martin, Paul Lynde, and others. The aerospace, cold war, and Catalina Island themes bring back a lot of memories. Remember the white steamer?

With so many marginal movies transfered to DVD it is a crime that this one hasn't made it yet. Come on MGM, get with it!

I just saw this movie for the first time. If you like Doris Day you will love this film. The Spy angle is perfect for setting the 1960s theme. Then, and, oh boy, the sets start to overwhelm you. For those of you who are old enough to remember the Eichler homes in California, this film becomes eye candy. For those of you not architectually inclined Paul Lynde takes the cake.

Lynd in that dress is so freaking funny that I almost fell out of my chair. How funny that as early as 1966 Hollywood was joking about Lynde. He was so funny and it was no secret about his proclivities. It took years before mainstream America had a clue.

I recommend this film highly for anyone who would like to revisit an era more innocent than today and for anyone studying the Eames style of furniture and architecture.

Scott K Dolik

This movie is a spy spoof with typical Doris Day mature and adult sophistication, and silliness mature and sophisticated adults can find themselves in by miscalculation. I give it 4 instead of 5 stars because for Doris Day to need laughs squeezed by the vehicle of a spoof shows less confidence in Day for her normal comedic abilities. The film is lavish in its photogaphy. The placement and angles are breathtaking and truly inspired by an artist. You can't take your eyes away from the screen. Myriad guest stars make the film very intertaining. It was a time when comedians had characteristics that were as entertaining as uiniquely their own. There are off color jokes here and there, but fairly mild nonetheless. My gut feeling is that Day didn't need to do a spoof as much as to continue in her normal genre of sophisticated romantic comedy; the playing out of her own brand of humor in the believable realm needs no assistance from less sophisticated slapstick. It was clearly a step down, and missed the point of what Doris Day is. The main value of the film, besides Doris Day being herself, is the nostalgia of the period, and usual feel-good energy level that made Doris Day a legend.