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A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. The film is a likeable satire of "packaged" European tours, where the nonplused tourists are expected to rush from one landmark to another in a breathless 18 days. Ian McShane stars as the amorous tour guide, with Suzanne Pleshette as the American department store buyer he falls for; their romance ends when Pleshette decides that the supposedly worldly McShane is too immature for her. An all-star cast, including Murray Hamilton, Peggy Cass, Pamela Britton, Marty Ingels, John Cassavetes and Vittorio De Sica, pops up in comic cameo roles. Our favorite bit: an American and German tourist, simultaneously regaling their respective wives with wildly divergent accounts of the same wartime confrontation.
Original Release
04/24/1969
US Release
04/24/1969
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ian McShane | Charlie Cartwright |
Suzanne Pleshette | Sam Perkins / Samantha Perkins |
Vittorio De Sica | Shoemaker |
Murray Hamilton | Fred Ferguson |
Sandy Baron | John Marino |
Mario Carotenuto | Giuseppe |
Paul Esser | German Sergeant |
Suzy Falk | German Sergeant's Wife |
Michael Constantine | Jack Harmon |
Pamela Britton | Freda / Feda |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ian McShane | Charlie Cartwright |
Suzanne Pleshette | Sam Perkins / Samantha Perkins |
Vittorio De Sica | Shoemaker |
Murray Hamilton | Fred Ferguson |
Sandy Baron | John Marino |
Mario Carotenuto | Giuseppe |
Paul Esser | German Sergeant |
Suzy Falk | German Sergeant's Wife |
Michael Constantine | Jack Harmon |
Pamela Britton | Freda / Feda |
Norman Fell | Harve Blakely |
Reva Rose | Irma Blakely |
Hilarie Thompson | Shelly Ferguson |
Luke Halpin | Bo |
Donovan | Singer in Youth Hostel |
Marty Ingels | Bert Greenfield |
Catherine Spaak | Woman Posing for Photographer |
Mildred Natwick | Jenny Grant |
Peggy Cass | Edna Ferguson |
Senta Berger | London Saleswoman |
Producers
Name | Role |
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David L. Wolper | Executive Producer |
Stan Margulies | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1970 | Golden Globe | Best Screenplay | Nominated |