Houseboat (film)
Houseboat is a 1958 American romantic comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson. Both the love theme "Almost In Your Arms", sung by Sam Cooke and "Bing! Bang! Bong!", sung by Sophia Loren, were written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. It was presented in Technicolor and VistaVision. Starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino, the film was written by Shavelson and Jack Rose on the basis of an original script by Grant's wife at the time, Betsy Drake. It was released on November 19, 1958. Plot For three years, Tom Winters, a lawyer working for the U.S. State Department, has been separated from his wife and three children: David, Elizabeth and Robert. Tom returns to Washington, D.C. from Europe, after his wife died. The children want to stay in the countryside with their mother's wealthy parents and her sister Carolyn, but instead Tom takes them with him to live in Washington. They visit the Washington Monument. Robert complains about visiting dead people. One evening, they attend the Boston Symphony. Robert disrupts the concert by using the harmonica. An Italian girl, Cinzia, laughs. After the concert ends, Robert separates himself from the family and disappears. Cinzia has an argument