Mister Buddwing

United States

1966

100 Min

Black and White

English

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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PROD Douglas Laurence, Delbert Mann

SCR Evan Hunter, Dale Wasserman

CAST James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Plushette, Katharine Ross, Angela Lansbury, Jack Gilford, Nichelle Nichols

PROD DES George W. Davis, Paul Groesse

A well-dressed man wakes up on a bench in New York’s Central Park, with no idea of who he is, or how he got there. All he can find in his pockets are a train schedule, a couple of drug capsules, and a piece of paper with a phone number on it. On his right hand: a ring with a cracked stone; engraved on the inside of the band is the inscription, “From G.V.” Armed with these meager clues, the man, adopting the name “Buddwing” (inspired by a passing Budweiser beer truck and a plane flying overhead), sets out to learn his true identity. Along the way, he encounters a variety of people, including three different women who each reminds him in some way of someone named “Grace.” —IMDb

Director

Delbert Mann

Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director. He won the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty. It was the first Best Picture winner to be based on a television program, being adapted from a 1953 teleplay of the same name which he had also directed. Mann is also the only director other than Billy Wilder and Roman Polanski to win an Oscar for his direction and a Cannes Palme d’Or for the same film. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America.

Mann was born in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, the son of Ora (née Patton), a civic worker and teacher, and Delbert Martin Mann, Sr., a college professor. Mann graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. After school, he served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in WW II, then got discharged after service in the European theater. He then attended Yale Drama School… read more