THE TUNNEL OF LOVE
(M.G.M.-Joseph Fields) A Cert, ENE KELLY is one of the most likeable people in films today, and it was good to find when he made The Happy Road that as a directo? he has the same light touch that distinguishes his acting. Now he has done it again, for The Tunnel of Love is the most agreeable comedy I have seen for some time-it really made me laugh. Peter Veiee-I’va_ been re-reading some of
his short pieces with great enjoyment -has a real feeling for man-wife relations of a not too solemn kind, and this film is based on his novel about a couple who plan to adopt a baby because they seem unable to have one of their own. Then one night the usually devoted husband goes off with the attractive investigator (Gia Scala)
from the adoption agency, and it begins to look as if their childless state isn’t his fault ... My complaint about this film is that it depends a bit on coincidence and has what looks too much like a _ trick ending. Still, this didn’t really spoil it for me. Doris Day and Richard Widmark are thoroughly likeable as the couple, and Gig Young turns in a good performance as a neighbour who gives his wife a baby every year but still finds time to play the field-there’s a touch of the ham at times, but
smugness are deligntrul, Also a joy is Elizabeth Wilson as a second investigator. The Tunnel of Love has well-handled comic situations and witty and amusing lines. I especially liked the neighbour’s advice to the husband inclined to turn and face the consequences of his infidelity: "When Daniel got out of the lions’ den he didn’t go back for his hat."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1052, 23 October 1959, Page 16
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293THE TUNNEL OF LOVE New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1052, 23 October 1959, Page 16
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