The Tiger Makes Out
The Tiger Makes Out is a 1967 American black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Eli Wallach and his wife Anne Jackson. The plot concerns a kidnapper and his unintended victim.[1] It marked Dustin Hoffman's film debut.
The Tiger Makes Out
The Tiger by Murray Schisgal
George Justin
- August 18, 1967 (New York City)
94 minutes
United States
English
Plot[edit]
Ben Harris, an alienated Greenwich Village postal carrier, decides to get a girl 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 over Gloria Fiske instead.
When he carries her back to his basement apartment 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 envisaged.
Home media[edit]
The Tiger Makes Out was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment August 5, 2014, via its Choice Collection DVD-on-demand service, as a Region 1 DVD.