Siskel and Ebert review

Two of America's best film critics (may they rest in peace), Roger Ebert, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and his brilliant sidekick Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune, gave this film a thumbs up thirty years ago because they were both bowled over by the beauty of then nineteen-year-old Vanessa Angel, although Donna Dixon was equally lovely and quite a babe herself.

Siskel died in 1999, shortly before the Academy Awards, and Ebert less than a decade later, both from cancer. Their half-hour show was a cinema buff's continual delight and I never tired of watching it. They were always reluctant to give comedies a thumbs-up unless they were exceptionally well done, and this was a surprise box-office hit and quite hilarious. No film can miss if it has Bob Hope in a cameo role. I'm so glad it's in Netflix.