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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
UNITED KINGDOM · 1965

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

J. Lee Thompson
Cold War Sports Comedy Political Satire Fish Out of Water Espionage
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Synopsis

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plo

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