The Mating Game
Filmed on location in the haystack!
Rating: 6.4 out of 10TMDB(16 votes)
Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on the novel The Darling Buds of May
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Setting
Set in Maryland
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Music
Music by Jeff Alexander
Details
- Director
- Writers
- William RobertsScreenplay
- H. E. BatesNovel
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 29, 1959
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
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Cast
Debbie ReynoldsMariette Larkin
Tony RandallLorenzo Charlton
Paul DouglasPop Larkin
Fred ClarkOliver Kelsey
Una MerkelMa Larkin
Philip OberWendell Burnshaw
Philip CoolidgeReverend Osgood
Charles LaneBigelow
Trevor BardetteChief Guthrie
William SmithBarney
Addison PowellDeGroot- Rickey MurrayLee Larkin
- Donald LosbyGrant Larkin
- Cheryl BaileyVictoria Larkin
- Caryl BaileySusan Larkin
- Robert CarsonParty Guest (uncredited)
- Gordon CarvethTownsman (uncredited)
Gene CooganTownsman (uncredited)- Oliver CrossParty Guest (uncredited)
Franklyn FarnumTownsman (uncredited)
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