Two big and popular acting stars: Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball, and one famous writer - Damon Runyan - BUT, who do you have? A very annoying and boring film. Who wants to watch and listen as a nasty, spoiled woman is miserable a nice, adoring fan for almost the whole movie? The real sad thing was that the nastier she (Ball, playing against type) was to him (Fonda, playing a busboy!), the more he seemed to love her. There are people like that, of both sexes, and it's pathetic.
This also wouldn't appeal to most people because almost all of us have such a positive image of "Lucy," so why ruin things and watch her play this role of the opposite: a sadistic. rotten person? No thanks.
Yes, there is an audience for "downers," meaning depressing movies, but I'm not in that group so that's another reason this film did not appeal to me.....and, I assume, to most folks.
This also wouldn't appeal to most people because almost all of us have such a positive image of "Lucy," so why ruin things and watch her play this role of the opposite: a sadistic. rotten person? No thanks.
Yes, there is an audience for "downers," meaning depressing movies, but I'm not in that group so that's another reason this film did not appeal to me.....and, I assume, to most folks.