| 词条 | Fitzwilly |
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| name = Fitzwilly | image = Fitzwilly 1967.jpg | caption = film poster by Frank Frazetta | director = Delbert Mann | producer = Walter Mirisch | screenplay = Isobel Lennart | based on = {{Based on|A Garden of Cucumbers|Poyntz Tyler}} | starring = Dick Van Dyke Barbara Feldon John McGiver Edith Evans | music = John Williams | cinematography = Joseph Biroc | editing = Ralph Winters | studio = The Mirisch Corporation | distributor = United Artists | released = {{Film date|1967|12|20}} | runtime = 102 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = $2,100,000 (US/ Canada)[1] }} Fitzwilly is a 1967 American romantic comedy film directed by Delbert Mann, based on Poyntz Tyler's 1960 novel A Garden of Cucumbers (the title refers to Isaiah 1:8) and adapted for the screen by Isobel Lennart. Its title refers to the nickname of its protagonist, Claude Fitzwilliam, an unusually intelligent and highly educated mastermind of a butler played by Dick Van Dyke. The film co-stars Barbara Feldon in her first feature-film role. StoryClaude Fitzwilliam (Van Dyke) serves as butler to Miss Victoria Woodworth (Edith Evans), an elderly heiress whose tremendous wealth is a myth fostered by Fitzwilliam; her financier father actually left her $180. "Fitzwilly" has been leading the household staff on numerous thefts, raids and swindles — including the operation of the fictional charity and thrift shop, St. Dismas — to maintain "Miss Vicki" in the lifestyle to which she is accustomed. The staff's secret operations threaten to unravel when Miss Vicki hires an assistant, Juliet Nowell (Feldon), to assist with her creation of a dictionary that contains all possible phonetic misspellings of words. Juliet is surprised to learn from Miss Vicki that Fitzwilly graduated with honors from Williams College, and she opines that he should be doing something more "worthy" than being a butler, like joining the Peace Corps. After Juliet inadvertently foils several minor operations, Fitzwilly becomes determined to get rid of her. He conceives a plan to court her in order to induce her to quit; this becomes complicated when they fall in love. Still unaware of Fitzwilly's secret life, Juliet does quit when Fitzwilly refuses to discuss ending his life in service. Juliet stumbles upon evidence of Fitzwilly's past crimes, and returns to the mansion to confront him. Fitzwilly proposes marriage and agrees to end the criminal operations and tell Miss Vicki everything, but there is a problem: due to Juliet's past interference, the household is $75,000 short of funds, and they have to raise the money by Christmas Day. This leads to a complex setpiece in which the Woodworth staff orchestrates the robbery of Gimbels department store on Christmas Eve. Although the operation is initially successful, one of the household, Albert (John McGiver), allows himself to be caught to "atone" for his sins. He steadfastly refuses to implicate anyone else. Miss Woodworth casually blackmails the assistant district attorney ("the son of my oldest friend") into engineering a suspended sentence on a lesser charge, and blithely offers to write a counter check to the store to cover the amount of the take. Believing that the entire household is destined for prison, Fitzwilly uncomfortably toasts his and Juliet's engagement with Juliet, her father (Harry Townes) and Miss Vicki. His discomfort is alleviated when it is revealed that Miss Vicki's dictionary has been rewritten as a screenplay, and sold to a Hollywood studio for $500,000. SoundtrackThe film features an early symphonic score by John Williams, credited both on the album and on screen as "Johnny Williams". Notably the score includes "Make Me Rainbows", the film's love theme and end credits song and Williams' first collaboration with co-writers Alan and Marilyn Bergman. The score was released commercially at the time by United Artists (and re-issued in 1980 by MCA Records),[2] and was referred to as the film's "original motion picture score" and not as the "original motion picture soundtrack recording" because instead of performances that had actually been heard in the film Williams opted to release arrangements designed for separate listening. In 2004 a limited edition compact disc was released by Varèse Sarabande's CD Club which paired the scores of Fitzwilly and Robert Altman's 1973 film The Long Goodbye, another Williams credit.[3] Cast{{Div col}}
DiscographyThe CD soundtrack (including the re-recording album and the original complete soundtrack) composed by John Williams is available on Music Box Records label. See also
References1. ^"Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, 8 January 1969 p 15. Please note this figure is a rental accruing to distributors. 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.johnwilliams.org/compositions/fitzwilly.html |title=Fitzwilly |accessdate=2009-05-10 |work=The John Williams Web Pages }} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.varesesarabande.com/details.asp?pid=vcl-0804-1030-2 |title=Fitzwilly/ The Long Goodbye |accessdate=2009-05-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410232800/http://www.varesesarabande.com/details.asp?pid=vcl-0804-1030-2 |archivedate=April 10, 2008 |df= }} External links
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