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Good 'Ol fashion 60's 'Door Slamming' Comedy

posted 14 years ago by rleary1
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Just watched it today on TCM and it still holds up well IMHO. It occurred to me that the nearly 15 minute ending segment with everyone in cars is done in the same was as a stage farce with everyone running room to room with doors slamming behind them. Natalie is so beautiful in this movie and always makes me feel bad that we lost her during her prime of life. I also love Lauren Bacall's lines especially: (Dr. Natalie holds her 3 fingers to tell her how many women her husband is married to and Bacall replies, "No wonder I don't have any clothes?" Natalie follows with, 'Mrs. Broderick, you're husband is a VERY SICK man' to which Bacall replies, "Yeah, he's about to Pass Away..." I also enjoy the 'In-Joke' where everybody claims that Tony Curtis is the 'guy that looks like 'Jack Lemmon'. Good stuff.

You're damned if you do and damned if you don't ~ Bart Simpson

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[–] kelly-527 14 years ago

I hope you are young. I was a toddler when it came out, but I can still enjoy the humor and the cameraderie of the actors. Not much wrong really. I love it when she says her Mother made her come to apologize. The "honesty" and egoisim of today are a little tiresome.

[–] Blondfashionisto 14 years ago

I just saw this witty film on TCM - It took a little while for me to 'get into it' but once I did it was very cute...

‘Six inches is perfectly adequate; more is vulgar!' (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Re: An open window).

[–] s007davis 11 years ago

"It occurred to me that the nearly 15 minute ending segment with everyone in cars is done in the same was as a stage farce with everyone running room to room with doors slamming behind them."

That's a good way to describe it. I've read a lot folks here complaining about the car chase finale but that's always been the funniest part of the film for me. I also like "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and the other Curtis/Wood comedy "The Great Race" which are both films largely about car chases so that may explain why I like it.

[–] vivacious_dan 8 years ago

I loved this movie. The unrelenting bile and hatred being spewed at this film on this board is pathetic. It was a light, fun, frothy 60's sex comedy in the same vein as the wonderful Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies of the same time. Natalie Wood was delightful - sexy, effervescent, lovable, vulnerable - her scene with Curtis in her apartment after she has had one too many and he is kissing her neck gave me goosebumps. It's a fun sex comedy from the 60's, nothing more nothing less, and if people don't like that genre, perhaps they should avoid it instead of endlessly b*tching about it on iMDB.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Yes, very enjoyable and funny comedy.