John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home is a 1965 comedy film based on the novel by William Peter Blatty published in 1963. The movie was directed by J. Lee Thompson.

The countrys leader threatens to turn him over to the Soviets unless he agrees to coach a football team. Jenny Ericson, the magazine journalist who made Goldfarb famous, is on an undercover assignment as a member of the Kings harem, and when she discovers she was wrong in thinking the King is no longer romantically interested in his wives, she seeks help from Goldfarb. The King blackmails the U.S. Department of State into arranging an exhibition football game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and his own team from Fawz University. Jenny becomes a cheerleader and then the quarterback who scores the winning touchdown for Fawz University.Blattys book originally was written as a screenplay, but when no studios expressed interest in it, he reworked it as a novel, which was published by Doubleday ISBN 0553142518. The novels success led Twentieth CenturyFox to acquire the film rights, and Blatty submitted his original script for a feature film directed by J. Lee Thompson. ........

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