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* HOW 10 SAVE A MARRIAGE AND RUIN YOUR LIFE
(Columbia) Color-Panavision—102 mins. Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson.
Yet another kooky komedy komes to the kinema. With all its far-fetched folderol and foolishness, it remains both diverting and delicious thanks to the relaxed charms of Mr. Martin and the beguiling beauty of Miss Stevens, not to mention the talented thesping of the husband and wife team of Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson as the grumpy groom and his understanding mistress. The oft-used and misued theme of mistaken identity is thinly stretched and indulged in beyond incredulity but the picture is saved by the easygoing expertise of its cast. As escapist entertainment this is slick stuff.
Director Fielder Cook, responsible for the under-rated and unsuccessful BIG HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY seems to have a flair and a feeling for off-beat comedy and in this case he may have found a responsive audience to make up for his former failure.
* SWEET NOVEMBER
(W.B.-7 Arts) Technicolor — 114 mins. Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley and Theodore Bikel. To add a sour note to this month’s reviews, SWEET NOVEMBER is it. A waste of some formidable talent and fetching photography of New York (again). Certainly a more representative vehicle for Mr. Newley’s first American film could have been found. The picture is slanted to susceptive ladies (or men) who cry at the drop of a handkerchief. How could we be made to feel any sympathy for a young woman who takes in a different man for each month with the naive notion of setting his right on the road to life—while she faces death with some unknown disease. No doubt a great director and cast might have made it digestible—but it seems doubtful! Incidentally, this picture played the world-renown Radio City Music Hall! It just goes to show “One man’s meat. . . “”
* KONA COAST
(W.B.-7 Arts) Technicolor—93 mins. Richard Boone, Vera Miles and Joan Blondell.
A thumbs down for this strictly lower-half of a double bill feature. Even the on=the-spot photography of the Honolulu locations does not help when the story gets in the way of the cameras. The script, to use the word loosely, deals with dope and dopes. Unfortunately the latter win out.
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