THE LIEUTENANT WORE SKIRTS
(20th Century-Fox-CinemaScope) ° SINCE The Lieutenant Wore Skirts is about a husband left to face temptation at home while his wife is away, and the stars are Tom Ewell and Sheree North (a successor to Marilyn Monroe), who can be blamed for comparing it with The Seven Year Itch-and being a bit disappointed? Sheree’s the lieutenant, gone to a security job in Hawaii, where Tom soon joins her to cook, not only the meals ("I'll be the best darn wife you. ever had"), but the grand strategy that will get her home again. It’s an amusing film; but where The Seven Year Itch seemed to hang together (it had charm, too), the new film (which Frank Tashlin directed and partly wrote) tends to be a collection of more or less amusing situations. These are funny most often because Mr. Ewell is a very good comedian, Always engaging, he can lift a most expressive eyebrow and triumphantly carry off a long solo clowning act. Miss North is easy on the eye, adequate, less dumb than in her first film, but leaves no very strong impression. Surprisingly, one of the best scenes is a parody of The Seven Year Itch: a visit from a girl upstairs who poses catlike on the terrace and fills Mr.
Ewell’s mind with horrifying pictures of the good time his wife is having in Hawaii.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 869, 29 March 1956, Page 19
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231THE LIEUTENANT WORE SKIRTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 869, 29 March 1956, Page 19
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