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. It marked Dustin Hoffman's film debut.
Plot
Loser Ben Harris (Eli Wallach), an alienated Greenwich Village 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 (Anne Jackson) 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.
Cast
Eli Wallach as Benjamin "Ben" Harris
Anne Jackson as Gloria Fiske
Bob Dishy as Jerome "Jerry" Fiske
John Harkins as Leo
Ruth White as Edna Kelly
Roland Wood as Tom Kelly
Rae Allen as Beverly
Sudie Bond as Miss Lane
David Burns as Louie Ratner
Jack Fletcher as Pawnbroker
Bibi Osterwald as Theodora Ratner
Charles Nelson Reilly as Mr. Henry—Registrar
Frances Sternhagen as Woman on Bus
Elizabeth Wilson as Receptionist
Kim August as Toni the Songbird
Alice Beardsley as Kentucky Neighbor
Mariclare Costello as Rosi
David Doyle as Marty—Housing Clerk
Dustin Hoffman as Hap
Michele Kesten as Waitress
James Luisi as Pete Coppola
Remak Ramsay as Housing Guard
Sherman Raskin as Red Schwartzkopf
John Ryan as Toni's Escort
Edgar Stehli as Old Man
Oren Stevens as Policeman
Judy Graubart as Woman Passing Lassoed Hydrant
DVD
The Tiger Makes Out was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on August 5, 2014, via its Choice Collection DVD-on-demand service as a Region 1 DVD.