Bedtime Story movie storyline. Freddie Benson (Marlon Brando) is a Casanova who despises women and invents all sorts of tricks to bed them and leave them. His favorite one is going through Germany posing as an American GI of Teutonic extraction. Whenever he spots a girl he likes, he takes a Polarod picture of her house, knocks on the door waving the photo and pretending to be on a pilgrimage to this very cottage his grandmother so vividly described.
It is an infallible system for a hit-and-run seduction. Benson seems content with his game until he meets Jameson, a real operator who has learned to combine sex with money. Jameson poses as an exiled prince and not only gets women to share his bed but also to bestow their jewels on him for the sake of the counterrevolution. Benson decides to corner Jameson’s market on sex plus finance. A contest develops, and whoever wins will dominate a small Riviera resort as “King of the Mountain,” the film’s original title. Remade in 1988 as “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.”
Bedtime Story is a 1964 American comedy film made by Pennebaker Productions. It was directed by Ralph Levy and produced by Stanley Shapiro, with Robert Arthur as executive producer, from a screenplay by Shapiro and Paul Henning. The music score was by Hans J. Salter and the cinematography by Clifford Stine. The film stars Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones, Dody Goodman, Aram Stephan, Parley Baer, Marie Windsor, Rebecca Sand, Frances Robinson, Henry Slate, Susanne Cramer, Cynthia Lynn and Ilse Taurins.
The film has been the basis for two remakes: 1988’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine) and 2019’s The Hustle (starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson). Filmed on location at Cannes, the comedy was written and produced by Stanley Shapiro (who received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 1959 romantic comedy film Pillow Talk).
Bedtime Story (1964)
Directed by: Ralph Levy
Starring: Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones, Dody Goodman, Aram Stephan, Parley Baer, Marie Windsor, Rebecca Sand, Frances Robinson, Henry Slate, Susanne Cramer, Cynthia Lynn, Ilse Taurins
Screenplay by: Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning
Cinematography by: Clifford Stine
Film Editing by: Milton Carruth
Costume Design by: Jean Louis
Set Decoration by: Oliver Emert
Art Direction by: Robert Clatworthy, Alexander Golitzen
Music by: Hans J. Salter
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: June 10, 1964
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