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How Long Is “The Gazebo”?

Name: The Gazebo
Genre: black comedy, Crime, comedy, adaptation
Released: 1959-12-16
Duration: 102 min
Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner, John McGiver, Mabel Albertson

1h 42m runtime

19591h 42mblack comedy • Crime • comedy • adaptation

Black comedy film with a runtime of 102 minutes, released in 1959. Presented in English.

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Runtime1h 42m

Minutes102

One SittingYes

With Break1h 54m

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Glenn Ford stars in this genial black comedy starring Glenn Ford as Elliot Nash, a successful television writer who is married to an equally successful Broadway star, Nell Nash (Debbie Reynolds). One day a blackmailer pays Elliot a visit. He claims to have in his possession nude photographs of Nell taken during her leaner years. Elliot decides the only way out is to kill the blackmailer. After the murder, Elliot hides the body in the ground where he is planning to build a gazebo. But after Elliot's gazebo is built, the body of the blackmailer is uncovered at another location; now Elliot has to figure out whose body is buried underneath his gazebo.

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Runtime1h 42m

Can Finish TonightYes

One SittingYes

With Break1h 54m

Movie Facts

Release DateDecember 16, 1959

Runtime1h 42m

LanguageEnglish

Genresblack comedy, Crime, comedy, adaptation

DirectorGeorge Marshall

ProducerLawrence Weingarten

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