Dec. 13, 1964 - Indiana, home of the University of Notre Dame, had a sneak preview of “John Goldfarb, Please Come Home” in Indianapolis last night.
There was no student riot — just laughter.
The 20th Century-Fox movie, which Notre Dame is trying to ban, was shown at the Loew’s Theater. (Pictured below are two of the film’s stars, Richard Crenna and Shirley MacLaine.)
“We didn’t get a single complaint about the Notre Dame football team’s performance in the harem — or anything else,” Robert Sokol, the manager, said.
The story is about an oil-rich Arabian king, played by Peter Ustinov, who races around his palace in a Rolls-Royce golf cart. His son, a 125-pounder, fails to make the Notre Dame football squad, and the king vows to field a team that will beat the Fighting Irish.
A former football player and coach, “Wrong Way” Goldfarb, gets lost flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and winds up in Ustinov’s kingdom. To prevent his plane from being turned over to Moscow, Goldfarb changes his name to “Wrong Way” Lawrence and agrees to create an Arab football team.
The King blackmails the U.S. Department of State into arranging an exhibition game between the Fighting Irish and his own team from Fawz University.
After a great deal of skullduggery, including Notre Dame’s participation in a harem orgy “or else you’ll offend the King,” the movie winds up with a football game that Notre Dame loses, 34-29.
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