The Tiger Makes Out is a 1967 comedy film

Comedy film

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 about a kidnapper and his unintended victim, starring Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach

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 and Anne Jackson

Anne Jackson

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 and directed by Arthur Hiller

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. This is Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman

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's film debut.

Plot

Loser Ben Harris (Wallach), an alienated mailman, decides to get a girl the only way he can — by kidnapping her. Putting his plan into operation one rainy night, he spots an attractive young woman. He races ahead of her and prepares an ambush. However, his would-be target finds shelter from the downpour and he ends up pulling a bag down over Gloria Fiske (Jackson) instead. When he carries her back to his basement apartment

Basement apartment

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 and removes the bag, he is dumbfounded to find he has captured a middle-aged housewife. With no alternative, he makes do with the person he has caught, but she proves to be not quite what he envisioned.

Cast

• Eli Wallach
  Eli Wallach
  Eli Herschel Wallach is an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...
  
   as Ben Harris
• Anne Jackson
  Anne Jackson
  Anne Jackson is an American actress of television, stage, and screen.-Life and career:Jackson, the youngest of three sisters, was born in Millvale, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Stella Germaine and John Ivan Jackson, a barber who ran a beauty parlor...
  
   as Gloria Fiske
• Bob Dishy
  Bob Dishy
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   as Jerry
• John Harkins
  John Harkins
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   as Leo
• Ruth White
  Ruth White (actress)
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   as Mrs. Kelly
• Roland Wood as Mr. Kelly
• Rae Allen
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   as Beverly
• Sudie Bond as Miss Lane
• David Burns
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   as Mr. Ratner
• Jack Fletcher
  Jack Fletcher
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   as Pawnbroker
• Bibi Osterwald as Mrs. Ratner
• Charles Nelson Reilly
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   as Registrar
• Dustin Hoffman
  Dustin Hoffman
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  as Hap