OH MEN! OH WOMEN!
(20th Century-Fox) G Cert. WILL confess that there were times in the course of this movie when I could hardly make out what the pro-ducer-director (Nunnally Johnson) was criving at, or what route he was taking. The general impression which remains with me is of a band of highly-skilled comedy. players clowning their way through almost 9000 feet of film without noticeable benefit of direction. Much of the fun is highly specialised and sophisticated, and when I laughed I laughed loudly, but there were too many fallow patches and awkward pauses and altogether too much theatrical grouping. And the mixture of satire, farce and slapstick just would not jell. Still, David Niven, Dan Dailey and Ginger Rogers have talent enough, and it was worth going along simply to meet Tony Randall in the role of a psychiatrist’s nightmare. I just wish there hadn’t been so much pointless horsing about.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 937, 26 July 1957, Page 30
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153OH MEN! OH WOMEN! New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 937, 26 July 1957, Page 30
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