The Tiger Makes Out (1967)

Director
Arthur Hiller

Main cast
Eli Wallach; Anne Jackson; Bob Dishy; John Harkins; Ruth White

Genres
Comedy

Description
During a typically disaster-filled day, Ben Harris, an angry and frustrated bachelor mailman living in a cluttered Greenwich Village basement, learns he has been paying rent to a woman who hasn't owned his building in 6 years. No longer able to endure the injustices of society, he decides to activate the ferocious tiger within himself by abducting a helpless female and dragging her back to his lair.


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