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Mood:
- HumorousSuspenseful
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Plot:
- Cons and ScamsCrimesDishonestyMurderWho Done It
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Genres:
- ComedyCrimeMystery
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60s
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Place:
- EuropeItalyVeniceEstate
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Humor:
- FarceDark Humor
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Style:
- Twists and Turns
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Based on:
- Based on BookBased on Play
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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The Honey Pot, 1967
English
USA
Profile of The Honey Pot
The mood of The Honey Pot is suspenseful and humorous. The plot centers around cons and scams, dishonesty, and crimes. It features farce and dark humor. The Honey Pot is a comedy and mystery movie. Stylistically, it involves twists and turns. In approach, it is realistic. The Honey Pot takes place, at least partly, on an estate. The setting is Venice. It happens in the 1960s. The Honey Pot is adapted from a play and based on a book.
Summary of The Honey Pot
This updated version of VOLPONE stars comic charmer Rex Harrison as Cecil Fox, a sly, wealthy man who pretends to be dying in order to test the love of his former mistresses. But a household full of greed and jealousy leads to trouble, as Cecil Fox soon finds out when he gets in over his head and one of his heiresses decides to speed his death along a bit. During Harrison's hot decade of the 1960s, in which he played some of his most famous roles, including the Oscar-winning Henry Higgins in MY FAIR LADY and the title character of DOCTOR DOLITTLE, Harrison teamed up twice with director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, known for directing--and often writing-- touchingly deep films about the complexities of human relationships, such as ALL ABOUT EVE and THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (another Harrison vehicle). During Mankiewicz and Harrison's collaborations in the 1960s, Harrison first starred as the doomed Julius Caesar in the glorious, romantic epic CLEOPATRA, playing opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, then later in the decade took on the role of clever, scheming Cecil Fox in THE HONEY POT. A movie that allowed both men to demonstrate the wide range of their comic talents, THE HONEY POT was Mankiewicz's final screenplay and his last film with Harrison; Mankiewicz would go on to direct only two more major films before retiring from Hollywood.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 22 May 1967 |
| Runtime: | 125 min |
Cast and Crew
as Cecil Sheridan Fox
as Mrs. Sheridan
as William McFly
as Princess Dominique
