elo-equipamentos Reviews

Hell on Frisco Bay (1955)

Why you were praying for on death row? Once more Robinson steal the show!!

[7/10 · 12 May 2024]

The quietly Alan Ladd this time played a bittered former Cop wrongly sentenced for a five years in prison by a murder that he actually wasn't guilty, back at San Francisco streets he tries hard clean his name and promising kill Victor Amato (Edward G. Robinson) a mobster that lead San Francisco's harbor on fishing boats's union, worst his wife had an affair meanwhile he stayed at prison, due it he refuses be back at house.

Who stolen the picture quite sure is Robinson as usually, he often mocking his scar-face body-guard (Paul Stewart) by he had often praying on death row until Vic arranged he get out of there, also he used to taunt his love affair with a former movie-star (Fay Wray), oddly enough Vic is married with a true believer blessing woman (Renata Vanni) in fact even of Italian heritage Vic hates whatever persons tied by church.

In other hand the wooden face Alan Ladd tracks down a hint aiming for bind Vic that was the mastermind of his misfortune, in the meantime he used to going to a nightclub where his beauty wife (Joanne Dru) works as singer (I see), nothing stunning or so, however let see it easily, aside the far-fetched outcome at San Francisco bay.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.

High Ice (1980 TV Movie)

Technically the last movie of David Janssen!!

[6/10 · 12 May 2024]

Essentially a TV movie star our beloved Dr. Kimble was too aged by its time by excessive tobacco use and also by alcohol abuse, he seemed to near ten years older, therefore we can ensure this was his last movie at your carrier.

Janssen plays a park ranger to led a rescue of some untrained climbers struck at high mountain at Washington State, when he finally reaches at base operation one chopper already crashed on recue attempt, worst he has to be dealing with a selfish Army Officer, he decides landing on the top and get off by rope to save them, by human mistake he falls down at edge broken his leg, even so he tried hard save one of the girl stranded nearby.

Technically speaking this small budge flick has a ton of crucial missteps, it becomes into a true nightmare for the audience, as the chopper wrongly and dangerously trying reach at mountain's wall that fatally went to crash, Janssen trying reaches by the top once more their "skilled"crew committed a fatal mistake, to be worsen the Pilot played by Dorian Harewood also put in jeopardy his chopper in high-risk attempt to rescue them, where nobody dared or even wasn't trained for, anyway a kind of disaster movie carried out by a high-trained crew members, thus what's we expecting for?

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First watch: 1987 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 6.25.

Star Trek: Is There in Truth No Beauty? (1968) Season 3, Episode 5

The subject of Alien life form and the mind control is back!!

[7/10 · 11 May 2024]

Quite often the writers returning in the subject of Alien life form and together the mind control in this weirdo episode, this turn a famous Medusan Ambassador Kollos will be carried by Enterprise to another place, turns out that such Alien life form is too ugly that the viewer must use a especial glass to avoid be going mad by such dauting vision, just his escort girl must get in touch with him.

As expected someone broke the protocol and sending the Enterprise to a far off beyond of the galaxy that stuck in time-warp at unknown dimension, now just Kollos knows the way to get back due such place there aren't any charted parameters to make a move, then came up the unpredictable when the escort girl refuses Spoke got in touch with Kollos himself.

The audience will realize a silly mistake carried out by the Vulcan genius in the final outcome putting in jeopardy his own life, aside the mismatches is highly interesting storyline with the special guest Diana Muldaur.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.

The Outside Man (1972)

The unusual funeral at Los Angeles, underrated French Polar!!

[8/10 · 11 May 2024]

After a family tragedy, Jean-Louis Trintignant was invited by Jacques Deray to make this picture in America aiming for clear your mind aftermaths of sad happenings, actually his character wasn't a hitman properly, he just had debts on games at Paris and had to kill a great mobster at Los Angeles in exchange to be free doing this assignment, sadly after fulfilled his task another real hitman tries kill him before leaving Los Angeles.

Then came up the gorgeous Ann Margret a former owner of a burlesque night club to aid him got a passport to get back to Europe, he soon figures out that such returning won't ensure laissez-passer even in Paris, so he decides stay to settle the things chasing the mastermind that ordering his death.

It's criminally underrated by large majority at IMDB's members in so unusual French Polar, it's has enough action, chasing streets and mainly many twists on the clever plot, also to enhance the offering the producers exposing the sinful nightlife of California on those peppery burlesque environment, fantastic casting and mainly by the Ann-Margret's decollete as the whole shaped body, what a vision of heaven!!

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.

A King in New York (1957)

Old scores being settled up between Chaplin over America!!

[7/10 · 10 May 2024]

The red-liner Chaplin caught in disgrace with US's establishment due his bad behavior often attacking the conservative wing, it triggers his banning from USA for good, in response he made this movie lampooning the whole system as consumerism, modern cinema, new wave of noisy rock bands and mainly House-Un American Activities Committee, this picture wasn't allowed in America for fifteen years, even in Europe it wasn't a successful at box-office.

Aside the own Chaplin stated it as non-political picture aiming for puzzle the audience, the critics said otherwise, underlining all aspects, as a refugee King, the communist boy, the atomic issue for pacific purpose and so for, in other hand as comic offering, it somewhat stayed in the past, rarely it achieved a free laughs from the viewers, even emotionally as he used to as can be proved at final laconic outcome, it seems a revenge to a country that made him rich and famous, in fact both were unequivocally losers from trade tensions.

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First watch: 1987 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5.

The Mask (1961)

Obscure Canadian Horror flick!!

[6/10 · 9 May 2024]

There are countless small budge horror made in Canada, this is one of them from the sixties, about a young archeologist that stolen an ancient mask from Tikal at South America of the Museum and went mad putting it at your face, it taken him into another dream dimension where has a disturbing and even a surrealistic experience, hereinafter he stayed distraught, before committed sui.cide, he sent it to your psychiatric that start used such menacing bleak object.

The story aside be auspicious the miscasting of some actors as the so young archeologist somehow undermine the offering a little bit, also the gorgeous girls on movie have a puritan behavior lowering it, in others words, a little mistake here and there mitigate the flick just in on tune which is summed up on the fine dreaming disturbance only.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.5.

Densô ningen (1960)

Inventive & well-craft Toho Sci-fi!!

[7/10 · 8 May 2024]

Strongly influenced by American cinema industry this inventive and well-crafted sci-fi made by Toho on early sixties is a delightful and colorful war story of former soldiers where the Commander and three followers killed a private nationalist and a scientist due they tried hidden a box of gold together with blueprints of war machines in cave after WWII is over, thus fourteen years later the trio of stealers have been received a warning over a revenge about to came.

After the first one has been murder by a small blade, it triggers a panic among the remainder group, including the Police and an investigative reporter as well, turns out that the assassin is actually the former soldier using an advanced device of matter transporter developed by the survivor old scientist, by this the electric killer has a perfect alibi, whereof he has to prove that wasn't at local where the crime carried out.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.

The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Two-Legged Buffalo (1966) Season 1, Episode 23

The pompous Prince of south seas Coral Island!!

[6/10 · 7 May 2024]

As far as recall it was one the most weak episode so far, apart the soft mannerism of the pompous Prince of Coral Island is too funny and remarkable, but the story is quite contrived as often in this exotic series, the Prince cited above landing at San Francisco for an upcoming political meeting at White House to sign a treat with the United States concerning the island be a trading post of Americans, before the long journey cross-country the Prince decides a relief time at Spa thermal spring, ours friends ought prevent a possible attack against the Prince that should be carried out by foreign powerful countries.

As usually a female presence is portrait by the eye-candy and silly aristocratic Dana Wynter to adorn the mainly masculine casting, by the way not so male-dominated, the Prince in question is openly a flamboyant behavior to call him as true man in correct term of the word, a sudden twist is comes along on the outcome.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.

Massacre in Rome (1973)

The infamous Ardeatine Caves Massacre!!

[8/10 · 7 May 2024]

Two movies were made concerning Lt. Gen. Kappler, this was the first one, the main subject concerning the infamous Ardeatine Caves Massacre, the last one THE SCARLET AND THE BLACK starred by Gregory Peck as Monseigneur Hugh O'Flaherty and Christopher Plummers as Gen Kappler, however this last one is more historically accurate.

The Italian title Reppresaglia focuses specifically on the attack against a Nazi patrol at Rome street carried out by ultra nationalist members, resistance and communist party, thus the German high command demanded for each 33 German soldiers dead, ten Italians must be shot merciless, nothing short than 330 citizen were chosen by criminal records even in smallest offences to fill out the list.

Meanwhile the Pope Pius XII kept quiet by political reasons scratching himself by the history forever, fine picture although such Father Pietro Antonelli played by Marcello Mastroianni remains unknown or his character was created upon Monseigneur Hugh O'Flaherty figure.

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First watch: 1999 / How many: 2 / Source: Cable TV-DVD / Rating: 8.

Destination Moonbase-Alpha (1978 TV Movie)

It's a rearranged story using archive footage from Space: 1999 series!!

[6/10 · 7 May 2024]

Instead to make it using the former casting of Space: 1999, the producers rather use an old footage of double episode intitled THE BRINGERS OF WONDERS PART 1-2 aired on august 1977, just rearranging the story when the moon after a nuclear blasting at Moonbase-Alpha has been throw into far space at incredible lightning speed (oh my God, the writers gonna mad?) worst an Earth spaceship appears reaching there faster than lightning speed (Einstein would died at once after this blasphemy).

The Earthlings rescuers crew are nothing short the Moonbase's crew closest friends, behind these guys hidden a bunch of Aliens monsters whom mesmerizing all them as humans, just Kroenig can see their real shape, actually they don't want return to Earth whatsoever, in fact such Aliens needs radiation to keep their bodies alive, the movie is in same patten of the series, amusing entertainment if you forget the mismatches on the plot.

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First watch: 1987 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD-Youtube / Rating: 6.

Assassin (1986 TV Movie)

It's a normal guy?? No it's actually is a Cyborg!!

[5/10 · 6 May 2024]

Dou you already heard that old story of an US's agency calls back those former collaborators when some situation running out of control??, How about Schwarzenegger's COMMANDO or even Lambert's FORTRESS 2: RE-ENTRY also RAMBO III just name a few, it's happened with Robert Conrad to be back with full power to stop a hitman that going mad after many killings, they just don't aware him that in fact he is dealing with a powerful Cyborg, what a double-crossing.

I thought that he'd returned just by the gorgeous Scientist Karen Austin working as supporting high tech computer, the top-secret Cyborg's developing was under oversight of Robert Webber, now they ought stop the hybrid-human when he has to be recharging his plutonium batteries for a thirty minutes only, meanwhile it is impossible to break, (why they figure out a dynamite for instance or a bazooka, certainly not it will destroy the whole concept). Well it should be asking too much.

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First watch: 1987 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 5.

The Crooked Way (1949)

The key subject amnesia is back at it small Noir!!

[7/10 · 6 May 2024]

The amnesia has been used quite often in American industry, on The Crooked Way this key subject is the main plot about this small Noir, where John Payne as WWII hero got amnesia after suffered shot at your head enabling him forget the whole pastime, back at Los Angeles he was face by the police for past as criminal, meanwhile he meets (randomly?) his former wife Ellen Drew that right way reports it to a powerful Mobster Sonny Tufts whom went into a jail by his older partner.

Too much contrived and far-fetched plot, for instance Payne met the police just on arrival at train station, humm.., also after talked with a police officer out of the blue finds out himself side by side with your forget wife Ellen Drew (I see..) at least is has a fine action outcome.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.

The President's Analyst (1967)

One the best parody of cold war paranoia of the past!!

[8/10 · 6 May 2024]

Unfortunately at its release time The President's Analyst was deeply misunderstood, however through the time it got cult status as one the best parody of cold war paranoia of the past, James Coburn post Flint got the role as movie's title and he becomes wacko after such pressure upon many sessions at President's cabinet, he sneak away from White House to flee, then all powerful countries opposing of United States want get him due he has been expended much time with American President supposedly having classified information.

Dark comedy stained with sci-fi and even a slight surrealism, moreover the funny characters enhance the movie to another path as the sourpuss Chief Agency Walter Burke, also either the hilarious red spy Severn Darden, without forget the stunning performance by Godfrey Cambridge, this movie ought be rediscovered by newest cinephiles generation.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.

Nightmare in Badham County (1976 TV Movie)

The rotten city at southern America!!

[6/10 · 6 May 2024]

At closing credits the producers slight implied it as real facts without any hint or further information about such happenings, just staying clear it was on southern town, the shooting took place at Carrolton and Greenwood on Mississippi, where at first glance all authorities are corrupts exploiting of their high positions for their own benefits concerning a feminine rural prison, where the Mayor supplied his bro.thel with an underage girls imprisoned just by smallest offences under the connivance of Prison's warden.

The sadist local Sheriff (Chuck Connors who else?) that arrested two Californian girls (Deborah Raffin and Lynne Moody) just by Moody mocking him at restaurant, aftermaths ra.ped her at jail, all this at blessing of the Judge (Ralph Bellamy) that is actually his cousin always covering for his bad behavior, anyway a rotten city, the movie is a sexploitation offering, displaying a front nudity among a les.bian contrived relationship, sadly the often good girl Tina Louise scratches his fine past in this picture as heartless prison leader.

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First watch: 1987 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 6.25.

Blind Beast (1969)

MÔJÛ had a great impact visually and became a Cult!!

[7/10 · 5 May 2024]

According the bonus material on DVD Daiei Studios was in financial troubles due TV advent and so for, then the producers called Yasuzô Masumura aiming for to bring something new and peppery to draw attention of hungry audience by nudity scenes, due it was forbidden in TV, even in pre-stablished tight budge he made a fine picture on Môjû, a mixing of several genres on sexploitation way.

The story about a blind sculptor aided by his mother kidnaped a young model for him, it becomes slowly in a sick relationship, blending sado.maso.chism, bon.dage and others related behaviors, the picture has a great impact visually on those giants sculptures on the walls squeezed on a small set, it wasn't so easy to swallow.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.

Monte Walsh (2003 TV Movie)

When a lonely Cowboy figures out that his world is fading away!!

[7/10 · 5 May 2024]

Tom Selleck just made few incursions at western genre, in Monte Walsh he also works as executive producer, it's about the changeover between old cowboys era with the advent of modernism on late 19th century, thus the inexorable comes faster and the cowboy's way of life is fading away, Monte Walsh refuses accept it whatsoever, however they old mates are marrying or make something else, due dealing cattle is now a seasonal job.

Meanwhile an uncommitted affair with Isabella Rossellini, Monte Wash will taking his life and wondering where he'll fits in this new environment, aside the slow pacing in the end the viewer will be reward plenty, strong cast with William Devane, Isabella Rossellini, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Barry Corbin, Wallace Shawn among others.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974 TV Movie)

Even dealing with a fictional story, underneath has many historical events!!

[9/10 · 4 May 2024]

It's a fictional story based in the novel as the same title about a ex-slave girl self-called Jane Pittman (Cecily Tyson), the story unfolds in a period spanning the end of civil war until 1962 when the clashes ongoing in the south was in the peak, of course the writer had some reliable sources to re-telling those long years of post-slavery to tell in smalls details of this fabulous sad story.

So dealing as fictional story the impact is somewhat weakened by this, even so many events portrayed in the movie match with historical events as the Vigilantes that killed those free black families aiming for avoid them leave the south, also exposes why the hate gets stronger due the war let many south-farmers to bankrupt by war efforts, further their husbands and sons were killed in the battles, so they pinned those poor slaves for that, I'd watched this movie on far off 1987, the highlight went to Cecily Tyson stunning performance.

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First watch: 1987 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 9.

Combat!: The Bridge at Chalons (1963) Season 2, Episode 1

Lee Marvin strengthen Combat near to reach on the stardom!!

[7/10 · 4 May 2024]

Lee Marvin at its time didn't reached on the stardom yet, thus he accepts make Combat, strangely I always found the bulky Kirby with extreme similitude with Lee Marvin, then enters both in the same episode, said that Marvin plays a demolition expert send there to blast a bridge (If was a great one should make sense, however a small one becomes too contrived an expert to do so weak and narrow wooden bridge, anyhow it's Hollywood).

Turns out that Sgt. Saunders has to face a bittered and ill-mannered guy, thus a reduced platoon allowed to his HARD mission, whenever someone start a conversation is roughly stopped by the grumpy demolisher, didn't give a shi,t for talking, although near to complete his mission he'll prove of his own poison, great episode apart the weak premise.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.75.

Warlock: The Armageddon (1993)

Warlock sequel is a lower offering!!

[6/10 · 4 May 2024]

The hailed original Warlock became a smashing hit on box-office, thus a sequel was a matter of time, then the producers hold Julian Sands aiming for delivery something alike the first one, however a restricted budge didn't allowed it going so far, just betting on those embryonic CGI process, worst putting kids to struggles against a powerful wizard, it somehow undermined the offering.

Apart that the beginning is auspicious when Warlock has to got all stones spreading all around, really amusing and violent in each one, nonetheless the outcome stays miles away of promised, somewhat disappointing for most of fans.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.

The Dark (1979)

The Alien mangler from outer space!!

[5/10 · 3 May 2024]

Hard to find sci-fi-terror that I'd watched in 1987 and just found it on Youtube, this flick is a low profile offering about an alien monster mangling people on Los Angeles area, apart it has a fine casting as William Devane, Richard Jaeckel and Keenan Wynn.

In other hand the loud tinnitus Alien has a creative eye's beam to kill their captors, aside that it sounds silly, the plot is a bit confusing and sometimes adrift, it should be fits better in a pack of several low budge movies aiming for shove it for hunter trash like me.

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First watch: 1987 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 7.

The High Chaparral: Gold Is Where You Leave It (1968) Season 1, Episode 19

Among gold prospectors and Buck's misjudge!!

[7/10 · 3 May 2024]

Usually Linda Cristal has been poorly exploited in the series, instead in this specific story which she had some protagonism, rising up against Blue and Buck always be filthy on the table at dinner, also later she becomes misunderstood concerning treating Buck carefully who Buck erroneously misread Victoria's intention.

In the meantime arrives there two gold prospectors trespassing the Chaparral's land trying reactivate an old gold mine, it triggers a clash between Big John and them, in this episode two heavy guest stars the still unknown Harry Dean Stanton and the bulky Leo Gordon.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.

One Way Passage (1932)

True small Gem from the thirties!!

[8/10 · 3 May 2024]

The upper class actor William Powell and the gorgeous Kay Francis enhances this well-drafted-ill-fated shipboard romance-melodrama about a convict criminal Powell sentenced to be hanged at large at Hong Kong bumps into a charming Lady Francis doomed to die by critical illness, both keep their secret for their own, meanwhile Powell is arrested by a tireless Cop, thus they headed to San Francisco to face their destiny.

Fabulous story with strong humor oriented by the iconic comic actor Frank McHugh who stolen the movie with those unrivalled giggles, also many colorful characters came along the journey back to America, further the producers suggest a slight hint about the outcome.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.5.

The Fugitive: The End Game (1964) Season 1, Episode 30

Kimble upon any reasonable doubt!!

[7/10 · 2 May 2024]

Once more our hero is unluck caught by camera on street and soon it reaches at Lt. Gerard's hands, so the Los Angeles Police set up a dragnet to catch the long time escapee, after meeting with a lady night Martine Bartlett that snitched on to police, thus Kimble on the large find himself in a rent house uninvited by two opposite owners, meanwhile John McGyver is about to hold Kimble by the Police, John Fiedler actually has a feeling that Kimble at least has the right of any reasonable doubt, postponing any act of this rival concerning the arrest.

One the best clashes of point of views of those self-called buddies that have quarrel all the time whatever matter, in between Kimble envisages heavy clouds hovering at your head and the time is running out...

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.

Westward the Women (1951)

Seminal feminist western conceived by Frank Capra!!

[9/10 · 2 May 2024]

Conceived by the genius Frank Capra, who had an unsuccessful attempt with his Studio at its time, nonetheless later aided by William Wellman made it at MGM as major production took place at Utah reserve, where all training of the women were made.

The storyline is widely contrived when a California owner ranch played by John McIntyre decides bring to your sole cowboys nothing less than one hundred women to marry them from the faraway Chicago around 1.500 miles thru a desert area, defending themselves against natives, the hot environment, torrential rains and mainly the harassment carried out by their male defenders whose were assigned such grating.

A powerful picture forerunner for many others with a stunning casting as the lucky Robert Taylor as caravan guide, as the French actress Denise Darcel, the burly Hope Emerson, the gorgeous Julie Bishop and the two blonde girls Lenore Lonergan and Marilyn Erskine, also the Italian actress Renata Vanni, without forget the unforgettable Henry Nakamura as little Japanese funny character, a turning point at cinema industry quite sure.

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First watch: 2013 / How many: 3 / Source: DVD / Rating: 9.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)

Seldon Doris Day as top billing was overshadowed by someone!!

[7/10 · 2 May 2024]

Strangely this mild comedy even having the great singer-star Doris Day (that sang just a little) she wasn't the protagonist, addressing such position for his husband on movie David Niven as theatre critic, he used to be honest on his reviews due he was an unsuccessful writer, thus when he made bad critic upon a play produced by his best pal he caught in the press beaten up by the actress of the show Janis Paige.

Henceforth he becomes a star causing deep damages in your marriage, apart that the movie floating around Niven's bitter character and ups and downs the clever premise unfolds, sadly Doris Days stayed on secondary role just as housewife taking care of her children meanwhile making house restoration, poorly used in this sophisticated comedy.

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First watch: 1986 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7.