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64% Critic Match
The Mating Game
“Filmed on location in the haystack!”
6.4 / 10• 1959• 1h 36m•NR• English
ComedyRomance
Storyline
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins has never filed an income tax return. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daughter.
Cast & Crew
Debbie Reynolds
Mariette Larkin
Lead
Tony Randall
Lorenzo Charlton
Paul Douglas
Pop Larkin
Fred Clark
Oliver Kelsey
Una Merkel
Ma Larkin
Philip Ober
Wendell Burnshaw
Philip Coolidge
Reverend Osgood
Charles Lane
Bigelow
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. George Marshall's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Mating Game is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
