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GO OUT TO A MOVIE
by JANET GRAVES
THE MUSIC MAN
Warners; Technirama, Technicolor; Producer-Director, Morton DaCosta (Family)
who’s in it? Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold. what’s it about? A traveling con-man of 1912 tries to swindle an Iowa town with his scheme for a kids’ band. what’s the verdict? This big, handsome version of the stage hit is wonderfully good-natured and generous, telling its whole story in musical terms. Light romances team Robert with Shirley, Timmy Everett with Susan Luckey. Its picture of the “good old days” is so funny and fond, everybody can feel at home back there.
THAT TOUCH OF MINK
U-I; Panavision, Color; Director, Delbert Mann; Producers, Stanley Shapiro, Marty Melcher (Adult)
who’s in it? Cary Grant, Doris Day, Audrey Meadows, Gig Young. what’s it about? Tycoon chases girl who won’t say “yes” (without a wedding ring), but doesn’t exactly mean “no.” what’s the verdict? Mighty slick, stylish comedy, in which the good girl gets as lively a ribbing as the wolf does. Any resemblance to real life is strictly, delightfully non-existent. While the movie belongs to the impossibly poised Cary and the gorgeously dressed Doris, plenty of clever lines go to Gig and Audrey as well.
BOYS’ NIGHT OUT
M-G-M; CinemaScope; Metrocolor; Director, Michael Gordon; Producer, Martin Ransohoff (Adult)
who’s in it? James Garner, Kim Novak, Tony Randall, Howard Duff, Patti Page. what’s it about? Four commuters secretly rent a lush apartment in town and hire a “hostess” who fools them all. what’s the verdict? A neatly designed, brightly paced frolic that keeps promising to plunge into sin, but somehow always stumbles into respectability instead. In fact, that’s the point of the wacky plot. p It’s acted by a small army of well-known players topped by Rrndall and by Garner, who’s recovered his old “Maverick” wit.
ADVISE AND CONSENT
Columbia; Panavision; Producer-Director, Otto Preminger (Adult)
who’s in it? Henry Fonda, Don Murray, George Grizzard, Charles Laughton. what’s it about? A Senate fight over a cabinet nomination sets off intrigues and reaches deeply into private lives. what’s the verdict? Absorbing and controversial inside story. Once its complex situation has been outlined, it speeds up and generates lots of tension. A real blockbuster of a cast — fine actors playing brief roles — gives varying angles on the art of politics. Don and George really score as young individualists on a collision course.
THE NOTORIOUS LANDLADY
Columbia; Director, Richard Quine; Producer, Fred Kohlmar (Family)
who’s in it? Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak, Fred Astaire, Estelle Winwood. what’s it about? Assigned to London, a young U.S. diplomat tries to help an American girl suspected of murder. what’s the verdict? Back to the comedy mood again, with Jack and Fred as a pair of bureaucrats whose minds are definitely not on politics. Hardly a mystery — who’d believe Kim was a killer? — the film just pokes fun at creepy whodunits, and any time the laughs lag, it’s Lemmon to the rescue. He’s our boy! ( Continued on page 10)
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