Cast
- Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener, a.k.a. Chauncey Gardiner
- Shirley MacLaine as Eve Rand
- Melvyn Douglas as Ben Rand
- Jack Warden as The President
- Richard A. Dysart as Dr. Robert Allenby
- Richard Basehart as US Soviet Ambassador
- David Clennon as Thomas Franklin
- Ruth Attaway as Louise
- Denise DuBarry as Johanna Franklin
- Sam Weisman as Colson
- Arthur Rosenberg as Morton Hull
- Jerome Hellman as Gary Burns
- James Noble as Kaufman
- Fran Brill as Sally Hayes
- Elya Baskin as Karpatov
- Oteil Burbridge as Lolo (Boy on Corner)
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“The old man had heard that there was a wreck and knew most of the particulars, but he said that he had not been up there since it happened. It was the wrecked weed that concerned him most ... and those bodies were to him but other weeds which the tide cast up, but which were of no use to him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
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—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 8:12.
Referring to “the children of the kingdom ... cast out into outer darkness.” The words are also used in the parable of the talents, in Matthew 25:30, said of the “unprofitable servant.”