A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Cast
Peter Sellers
Chance
Shirley MacLaine
Eve Rand
Melvyn Douglas
Benjamin Rand
Jack Warden
President 'Bobby'
Richard Dysart
Dr. Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart
Vladimir Skrapinov
Ruth Attaway
Louise
David Clennon
Thomas Franklin
Fran Brill
Sally Hayes
Denise DuBarry
Johanna Franklin
Alice Hirson
First Lady
Jerome Hellman
Gary Burns
John Harkins
Sidney Courtney
James Noble
Kaufman
Mitch Kreindel
Dennis Watson
Oteil Burbridge
Lolo
Richard Venture
Wilson
Sam Weisman
Colson
Ilya Baskin
Karpatov
Hal Ashby
Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
Kenneth Patterson
Perkins
Stanley Grover
Baldwin
Crew
Hal Ashby
Director
Robert C. Jones
Screenplay
Jerzy Kosiński
Screenplay, Novel
Don Zimmerman
Editor
Caleb Deschanel
Director of Photography
David Hamburger
First Assistant Director
Toby Lovallo
Second Assistant Director
Jack Schwartzman
Executive Producer
Charles Mulvehill
Producer, Associate Producer
Andrew Braunsberg
Producer
Michael D. Haller
Production Design
Nick McLean
Camera Operator
Lynn Stalmaster
Casting
May Routh
Costume Designer
Frank Westmore
Makeup Artist
Charles H. Schram
Makeup Artist
Donald O. Mitchell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jeff Wexler
Sound Mixer
Frank E. Warner
Supervising Sound Effects Editor
Johnny Mandel
Original Music Composer
Robert R. Benton
Set Decoration
Gary H. Holt
Gaffer
Pablo Ferro
Title Designer
James L. Schoppe
Art Direction
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