Dick Van Dyke Movie Art of Love Hot Tub Scene
Jean-Francois Millet, not Gustave Courbet
Theowinthrop: "At that place is besides a brusk story by Mark Twain entitled "IS HE DEAD?" well-nigh a plot to make a reputation for a prominent 19th Century creative person, Gustave Courbet, by him pretending to be dead, and his paintings beingness sold for larger and larger amounts of cash so that the even so living Courbet and his friends brand a huge profit." It was Millet, the creative person responsible for THE GLEANERS and other works, who faked his death in club to raise the value of his art. Twain later turned the scam into a play, IS HE DEAD?, which finally got discovered in 2002 and produced on stage in 2007.
That said, THE Art OF Dear has long been one of my "Favorite Films I Haven't Seen in a Long Long Time." The lack of video release is depressing. Hopefully Universal will start a cablevision movie channel dedicated to its own films, much like Fox Picture show Aqueduct (a swell place to run across long-forgotten flicks similar PRUDENCE AND THE PILL).
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Hey Hollyweird! WHY ISN'T THIS Archetype ON DVD & TAPE!?!?!?!?
This is i of the funniest movies I have ever seen, and I tin can non, for the life of me, sympathise why it Notwithstanding isn't out on Tape or DVD. Its premise is hysterical and the interim is pure Academy Awards! Peculiarly the one-time lady who sits by the Guillotine and cackles zippo but "Guillotine! Ha Ha Ha! Guillotine!" I swear; anybody in this film is GREAT! James Garner; Dick Van Dyke; Elke Sommer: Angie Dickinson; They're all hysterical, and the last 15 or xx minutes of the film is is a total anarchism! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, Hollyweird Moguls, Get this i out to usa!!!! With all the celluloid effluvia out nowadays, allow's get this Archetype out equally soon every bit possible!!!
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An interesting scheme - from another film?
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In 1938 Rene Clair directed a motion picture called BREAK THE NEWS where Maurice Chevalier and Jack Buchanan are in the shadow of an egotistical female star, and phase Buchanan's disappearance, and possible murder by Chevalier to build up publicity for both men - simply to have the scheme blow up in their faces when Buchanan gets arrested on a upper-case letter charge himself, and is prevented from showing up in courtroom to rescue Chevalier. Both men are almost executed - but saved at the last moment by the egotistical star who learns the truth. So she gathers all the skillful publicity in the end.
There is besides a brusk story by Marking Twain entitled "IS HE DEAD?" about a plot to make a reputation for a prominent 19th Century artist, Gustave Courbet, by him pretending to be dead, and his paintings being sold for larger and larger amounts of cash and then that the still living Courbet and his friends make a huge turn a profit.
Those are possible keys to the plot genesis of THE Art OF Beloved, a 1965 film that starred James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickenson, and Ethel Merman. In that location are some interesting supporting roles for Carl Reiner and Roger C. Carmel, every bit a French defense counsel and a questionable art dealer as well. Garner gets the idea that Van Dyke'south paintings are quite good, but would sell for more money if he was to exist thought to be dead. Garner announces that Van Dyke has disappeared, and is believed to accept committed suicide. But the janitor (Jay Novello) has seen Garner disposing of a dummy. Novello sees the legs being put into the furnace, and thinks it could have been a body.
Van Dyke's being is known to only two people: Elke Sommer (his girlfriend) and Ethel Merman, his landlady. He has to keep a low profile, dressing in disguise all the time. And he notices that Garner is living in luxury from the auction of the paintings past Roger Carmel (an art dealer who may have collaborated with the Nazis). Angered at the lack of interest by Garner, and the latter'southward opportunistic romancing of his former girlfriend Angie Dickinson, Van Dyke all of a sudden realizes that Garner has left himself open for suspicion of the "murder" of Van Dyke.
And so Van Dyke carefully sets up "evidence" of his murder by Garner, complete with bloodstained clothing and cleaved teeth (and Novello's witnessing of the incident with the furnace). Motive is there - Garner is benefiting from his dead friend'southward paintings, and he has taken the dead man's girlfriend. So Garner is arrested (as is Carmel, who is shortly willing to help the prosecution). And Van Dyke, in disguise, watches the criminal trial with glee. Reiner, Garner'southward lawyer, is more concerned with not being associated too much with Garner than with defending him.
The end is a race to the guillotine, consummate with a clone of Madame Defarge, and Marcel Hillaire as the public executioner who abhors the death sentence.
It is a moderately entertaining comedy, with some funny moments. You will never hear the words "Don't touch!" again without thinking of Reiner'due south chaser. Not a great film, but adept plenty for a rainy afternoon.
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Practiced fun comedy with a great cast
I wasn't enlightened of this movie when it was initially released and probably didn't see information technology for several years after it came out when I saw it on TV. This is a vivid, witty charming movie loaded with a talented cast in James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickenson, Elke Sommer, Ethel Merman, Carl Reiner and a lot of bang-up character actors. I've only seen this a few times as it doesn't seem to get much air time on Boob tube and I don't know why because this is a funny flick. Norma Jewison directs this forgotten jewel. It's a good escapist romantic comedy and gives Van Dyke a lot of room to display his comedic skills. James Garner hold the whole thing together. If it shows up on Telly again sometime endeavour to check it out, some good comedy situations hither. I would requite this an 8 on a calibration of ten and recommend it.
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Funny and Dark at the Same Time
I saw this movie once a long fourth dimension ago and never forgot it.It has several funny lines and wierd situations in it also every bit Dick Van Dyke fakes his suicide, simply survives to get even with the friend played by James Garner who is getting rich off his phony death. Not that I condone suicide, merely it'southward unreal as the phony murder that Van Dyke sets upward takes upward a life of its ain. Ethel Merman is the dance hall owner keeping them from killing each other as she is unaware of the actress duties of her female dancers.Cute Elke Sommar and lovely Angie Dickinson are Van Dyke's and Garner'south love interests as "Star Expedition's" Roger C. Carmel and Van Dyke's TV boss Carl Reiner provide some comic relief in this black comedy.
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A hoot and a stitch of a picture!!!Ultra-hilarious!!!
Although I oasis't seen this film in many years, it was and then funny that 99% of it is all the same in my mind and I look frontward to the day information technology is put on video-though I don't know why it isn't out now, every bit funny as information technology is. If you go a chance to meet information technology-Do IT! You won't be deplorable!!!
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Totally Hysterical and a real GEM of a motion picture. Where is the DVD?????
I would accept to totally concur with some of the other comments, that this is one of the funniest movies that I accept ever seen. James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommers, Ethel Merman and others brand this movie so hilariously hysterical. Yes it is not an Oscar winning plot, but the story still is so funny that I am hard pressed not to include this in my list of top x 'Funnist Movies to run across' but problem is that unless you find information technology on the TV equally an erstwhile movie you cannot run across it at all. Which leads me into my question to you lot 'Imdb'and The Hollywood Moguls how can we solve this horrible oversight. Yes I can play it once more in my mind but to watch and hear once again especially the hysterical one-time lady who is cackling "Guillotine! Ha Ha! Guillotine!" would exist so awesome, on DVD with lots of bloopers would be a dream come up true. Please do not fail usa. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, (an E for each twelvemonth of this oversight, let'due south hope yous don't want FFFFFFFFFFFFF'due south)
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Make... this... available... for... PURCHASE!
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I was merely talking to my married woman about this hilarious moving-picture show from the mid-sixties and decided to look it up on the web. I offset saw it on an afternoon motion-picture show prove, "Dialing for Dollars" from the Bay Area of California.
The premise is zip short of genius - an artist (Dick Van Dyke) pretends to commit suicide in order to brand his paintings more than valuable. His best friend (James Garner) helps him pull information technology off, just horns in on Van Dyke'south girl. When Van Dyke finds out well-nigh information technology, he decides NOT to surface after his disappearance starts to look like a murder. His buddy is implicated and Van Dyke decides to let his "friend" sweat it out through a trial (where Van Dyke shows up in an "sometime human being" disguise" a la his old man grapheme from Mary Poppins) where Garner is sentenced for murder.
Others on this forum seem to call up the old lady who likes to scout be-headings murmur "Guillotine. GUILLOTINE!" while Garner is being led to his execution.
My favorite scene, though, is where Van Dyke is trying to make it to the execution in time to reveal he is not really expressionless in lodge to salve his friend at the final minute.
He'due south riding in a cab and at that place is a traffic jam in a pocket-size boondocks on the way there. Van Dyke nervously tells the cab driver to hurry because he has to get to his all-time friend's execution. The driver pulls the cab to a sudden stop, exits the cab, pulls Van Dyke to his feet by the lapels exclaiming, "What kind of a ghoul are you?", throws him on a dirt pile and drives off.
The hilarity of this scene is Van Dyke running around with his long lanky legs trying to detect a style to the prison where Garner is about to be executed.
Kudos to the writer, director and actors in this madcap, scream of a pic!
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Good comedy, and not-so-subtle satire on the dark side
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"The Art of Honey" is a proficient comedy and non and then subtle satire, with a slightly night side. It has a cast of meridian stars of the day. James Garner plays Casey Barnett, Dick Van Dyke is Paul Sloane, Angie Dickinson is Laurie Gibson and Elke Sommer is Nikki Dunnay. Amongst a very good supporting bandage are Ethel Merman every bit Madame Coco La Fontaine, Carl Reiner as Rodin, and Miko Taka as Chou Chou.
The time is the physician-1960s, and Barnett and Sloane are expatriate American artists living in Paris. Sloane is serious about panting, and is a practiced painter but has only been able to sell an occasional piece. Barnett is a writer who hasn't been able to sell a book. But he's more than interested anyway in the night life and ladies than in writing. The two bachelors share a apartment, which is paid for by an allowance that Sloane receives from his family unit back habitation.
Sloane decides to chuck it in and become back habitation, where his fiancé is waiting for him. That means Barnett volition lose his merely means of support. But then, something happens that changes everything and turns their globe into a hilarious, somewhat nighttime and fifty-fifty illegal existence.
After Sloane jumps in the Seine to save Nikki whom he thought had jumped in to commit suicide, he is presumed dead himself. Barnett then starts to sell his paintings which, in the fine art world of the film were valuable at present that the artist was dead. When Sloane turns upwards alive, Barnett convinces him to stay in hiding so they can reap the profits. He hides out at Madame Fontaine'southward house of women entertainers. When fiancé Laurie comes to Paris looking for Paul, Barnett meets her and gives her the sad news.
When Sloane finds out that Barnett has swept his fiancé off her feet, he plans to get even. So, he arranges details to go far announced that Barnett may take bumped him off. Information technology works and so well that Barnett is about to be guillotined. But Sloane can salve him, but will he exist in fourth dimension before the blade falls?
The darkness in this one-act is obvious. Director Norman Jewison said later that he regretted the implication of the motion picture that an artist's works would be worth more when he was dead than alive. Yet that is the very core around which the humorous and tangled plot develops.
The humor here is mostly in the situations, which are a hoot at times. In that location are some antics, but mostly it's clever directing and shooting with a screenplay that creates the funny situations. Information technology's not a comedy of dialog. And, while entertaining for many, information technology's non a family unit flick or even one for impressionable teens.
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This bottle of French champagne is a bit flat.
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Obviously ripped off by the hit Broadway musical and its non-musical film version, "Irma La Douce", this is a adequately amusing but empty farce that has all the ingredients except for the fizz. It'due south about the phony suicide of struggling artist Dick Van Dyke who pretends to be expressionless to increase the value of his paintings. Hiding out at the bordello of Madame Coco (Ethel Merman!), Van Dyke becomes jealous when his scheming pal James Garner romances his grieving fiancée (Angie Dickinson) just is comforted in the presence of Elke Summer, a suicidal girl he rescued from the river subsequently he took his drunken fall.
Starting off with cartoon credits that reminds me of a "Pinkish Panther" curt, this seems all too familiar in its plot devices, peculiarly when Garner'due south scheme lands him on trial for his pal's murder. The performances are exactly what you wait them to be, with rubber legged Van Dyke doing his typical schtick. While it's obvious that the singing and dancing girls working for Merman do more than wear colorful costumes, the script never confirms it.
In that location were dozens of French ready films involving artists in the 1960'due south, so this is nothing too spectacular, but there are some funny moments especially from the multi color haired Merman. She even gets a musical number (music by Cy Coleman) complete with tin can can girls. It's colorful and sexy all the same generic, the type of motion-picture show that haunted neighborhood movie theaters on their first run rather than play the large pic houses, and would ultimately stop upwardly haunting the late show where I first saw information technology dorsum in the mid 1980's. A lot of threescore'southward clichés abound, simply professionally directed by Norman Jewison, it's amusing fun that won't diameter you simply won't stimulate your brain either.
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terribly funny
This i needs to exist out on DVD, with all the fierce stuff Hollywood is putting out nowadays, this needs to come out and so that nosotros can laugh once more. As one other poster commented, PLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEE! get this one out. Dick Van Dyke is just hilarious and the way he gets back at his long time friend James Garner is terrific. They don't come up with plots similar this in Hollywood anymore. I promise more people tin can get their votes out on this fabulous film. Its one of the classics that has been forgotten again, just similar some of Danny Kayes classics similar "KNOCK ON Forest" or "MERRY ANDREW" or Bob Hope's "OFF LIMITS".
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Somewhat agreeable
A struggling American painter in Paris (Dick Van Dyke) fakes his death and then his paintings volition sell. His buddy (James Garner) helps him along. Notwithstanding Van Dyke's girlfriend (Angie Dickinson) believes he's dead and falls for Garner. And so there's Elke Sommer (who'southward neat) as an innocent down on her luck girl and Ethel Merman equally a madam (in a wholesome PG sort of manner).
Frantic and somewhat amusing one-act. It moves at a fast clip and has a keen bandage. The main problem is that information technology just isn't that funny. Dickinson fainting at everything gets old real quick and Garner is a existent wiggle. However I kept watching and the fast step kept me interested. This was not a hit when it came out and is kind of hard to see now. Look for information technology on TCM.
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A fresh, funny gem that deserves the DVD treatment.
But stated, I enjoyed this moving picture decades ago when it rain on TV, and I cannot believe it has yet to be released on DVD. Look at the cast. It'due south quirky, funny and mostly sweet with peachy location shots. I don't even think seeing it on TCM, which is really strange. Does anyone out there know if it was ever even released on VHS? James Garner and Dick Van Dyke play off each other beautifully. The female characters are colorful and endearing to say the least. If y'all love the sixties, and crave a comedy that is original and but a little risqué, this movie is for y'all. Please! The DVD! Does anyone know what entity to contact to go this movie out there for fans to experience again?
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All of France is conned
The divide talents of James Garner and Dick Van Dyke should have guaranteed a better pic than The Art Of Honey. Notwithstanding the considerable legion of fans both those guys accept should exist pleased. Not to mention that Angie Dickinson and Elke Sommer are forth for the girl watchers.
The guys are roommates in a Paris flat Garner an aspiring writer and Van Dyke an aspiring painter, neither of whom has made their marker. But in Van Dyke's case equally is pointed out painters simply become legends after their demise.
Which while both are in a drunken stupor gives Garner a bright idea, peculiarly when Van Dyke jumps into the Seine. He sells whatever he can find for a parcel and so when Van Dyke shows upwards they continue the fiction going. After that romantic complications prepare in and other kinds of complications prepare in equally the gag goes way too far.
I actually expected amend. Garner'south charming conman gets a bit hard to accept. Van Dyke's gift for physical comedy and pantomime are served better in The Act Of Dear. Ethel Merman has a part as a brothel madam and she's about equally French as Anna May Wong. And what were a hubby and married woman pair of Jewish Delicatessen owners Irving Jacobson and Naomi Stevens doing here. More suggestive of Flatbush than the Left Banking company.
Non the best work for any of the quartet of stars.
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Elke Sommer Gives This A Lift!
This is a decent comedy starring Dick Van Dyke and James Garner (boring every bit usual), Angie Dickenson, lovely, and the beautiful Elke Sommer who makes it worthwhile. The premise (faking suicide to sell paintings) is pretty ridiculous, just Ms. Sommer's presence lights upwardly the screen. This totally undervalued actress was stuck in too many dumb comedies and is a very intelligent woman who speaks many languages.
A vii out of 10. Best performance = Elke Sommer. This type of one-act was on it's way out in 1965, but with the fascinating Ms. Dickenson and Elke Sommer it's worth your while. James Garner should re-evaluate the roles he takes. He just never seems conceivable.
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Mildly agreeable; we look more of this bunch
Pretty mid-1960s sex activity comedy set in Paris, filmed on Universal'south dorsum lot, but extremely well faked. Information technology's a rather night-hearted farce about ii buddies, an artist (Dick Van Dyke) and writer who doesn't write much (James Garner) who faux Van Dyke's death to heighten the toll of his paintings. That in itself is pretty tired satire, and it gets more tired when we're introduced to the two men's ladies, a suicidal local girl (Elke Sommer) and Van Dyke's wealthy fiancee (Angie Dickinson), who faints a lot and gets passed between the ii guys like a soda. At that place'southward also a cabaret-possessor-and-probable-madam (Ethel Merman in a series of bizarre wigs), a Jewish cafeteria owner (Irving Jacobson), a fervent private investigator (Pierre Olaf), and a fair corporeality of slapstick. Van Dyke's expert and does some beautiful pratfalls; Garner, playing a real rotter, is atypically shrill and charmless. Dickinson hasn't much to offering but a series of middle-popping fashions, and Sommer is unaffected and delightful. A few laughs, merely Carl Reiner and Norman Jewison, having recently delivered "The Thrill of Information technology All," were capable of far better.
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One of my favorite movies
Why does this movie have such a low rating? This is a really good one-act. The acting is great, the characters are well developed, the story-line(plot) is very original, funny and well executed. I'd say this is a better comedy than any Jerry Lewis picture I've seen and I'm a Jerry Lewis fan. Dick Van Dyke was such a great comedic actor, James Garner and Elke Summers also, such great acting.
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An Uneven Comedy Picayune Seen Until Now- TCM Runs Information technology
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Norman Jewison is a tiptop managing director with many credits. This is one of his least known films. Carl Reiner wrote the script and has a function in the film. James Garner and Dick Van Dyke are together in one of the rare times they would exist. Garner's Cherokee Productions is involved here in this Universal Moving picture. Elke Summer, Angie Dickinson, and Ethel Merman are all here. Even Roger C. Carmel is here simply a year before he would do Star Trek and The Mother's In Constabulary.
Yet, this movie was destined to bomb with a large B. It is difficult to understand why until y'all watch information technology. The plot is a bit of a stretch, and the ending goes beyond the stake. I love looking at this bandage, but information technology is so hard to understand why there is so much slap stick here and then little verbal one-act. Mayhap Carl Reiner was writing too many other scripts for this one to become the dialog it needed.
The opening credits, Animation from Freleng (Pinkish Panther) is cute. I just recollect that for one fourth dimension too much talent got together and produced something that just did not click for audiences. The slap stick of the arrival just in fourth dimension to save Garner from the guillotine at the end of the movie is a stretch hither.
At least the movie is short, and fans of this great bandage should enjoy the brusque run. It is funny, but the dark comedy which dominates this i is washed much better than this in other films. I practise green-eyed Garner making out with Angie Dickinson, and Van Dyke getting to know a really hot Elke Summertime. Ethel Merman gets the simply musical number.
The dead artist theme is actually proved here, likewise much slap stick comedy is dead, in 1965. It could have been then much meliorate.
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Another Overlooked Film We Need on DVD!
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(Spoiler Warning!) A romantic comedy of errors, gear up in (1965) Paris, starring James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer and Angie Dickenson. Nice sets and locations provide an interesting time-piece. Starving artist ( Van Dyke ), and best friend ( Garner ) conspire to fake Artist'south death so his paintings will go more valuable and sell. Their Plot inevitably goes awry due to misunderstandings and jealousy involving their love interests ( Sommer and Dickenson ), and Garner almost goes to the guillotine in a very funny scene, before everything is all straightened out in the end. Any fan of any of these actors will relish this quite funny film. James Garner and Dick Van Dyke are hilarious. Angie Dickenson and Elke Sommer are gorgeous. An overlooked picture that needs to be released on DVD.
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A Stinker from a Bunch of Pros
Dick Van Dyke and James Garner for one-act, Elke Sommer and Angie Dickinson for sex activity, Carl Reiner writing, Norman Jewison directing, and this is the stinker they stirred up. The plot, a painter pretending to be dead to sell his paintings, recalls some of the contrivances of IRMA LA DOUCE, only ART completely lacks the heart winking Gallic quality Wilder brought to his script. Poorly lit studio sets, frantic overacting, and don't forget Ethel Merman as a PG madam who run's a "Girl's Society." There's barely a laugh in information technology. Perchance the whole thing complanate under the product of Ross Hunter, the clutzy, schmaltzy producer who made Universal millions with Sirk soap operas. Art OF Beloved followed the moderatley amusing THRILL OF IT ALL, with Garner, Reiner and Hunter on lath, and suggests that they were tying to follow one hit with some other one. But Reiner'due south scrips sounds like he had it in a desk drawer since the 50s. The oo-la-la acting of ART OF Honey, in these politically correct times, comes close to racism.
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VAN DYCK Tries Too Difficult In Unfunny Comedy
DICK VAN DYCK is a struggling artist in Paris in the straining to be funny THE ART OF LOVE. Lots of slapstick that just doesn't hit the mark, no matter how furiously cast tries. VAN DYCK'South character Paul fakes his death believing that his paintings will sell like hotcakes ! When friend and rival JAMES GARNER gets sentenced to be guillotined for his murder, Paul must determine whether or non to put an end to his charade. Gorgeous ELKE SOMMER & ANGIE DICKINSON are the love interests. A few laughs are provided by ETHEL MERMAN equally brothel possessor Madame Coco, otherwise this pic is dull and uninteresting.
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What a criminal waste material if talent
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Two of the well-nigh likeable actors of the 1960s, James Garner and Dick van Dyke (fresh off "Mary Poppins") headline this dog of a picture show.
The promising premise: Garner, a struggling writer, and van Dyke, a struggling painter, share digs in Paris.
Van Dyke, living cheaply off his American fiancee (Angie Dickenson), decides to chuck painting and go home. Garner, sponging off him, badly comes upwards with a scheme where van Dyke pretends to commit suicide then the price of his paintings will skyrocket (to exist off-white, their characters are drunkard at the time).
But when van Dyke, in the fog, sees Elke Sommer actually try to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge, he doffs his coat and hurls himself in to rescue her. They stop up floating away on a clomp while Garner, clutching his chum'south glaze, believes he actually killed himself--and loses no time putting his scheme into activeness, making a mint with a bent art dealer (a scene-stealing Roger C. Carmel).
But what will happen when van Dyke bobs back up alive, unaware Garner has instituted his scheme (which volition constitute fraud)? And what will Garner do with Dickinson, who shows up out of the blue?
What a great idea for a 1960s-era one-act. And an uber-mannerly bandage.
Unfortunately, charm doesn't carry the day, or the motion picture. It has a potent story, the get-go requisite of a proficient picture show; but the writers forgot to put in any laughs. A film of this period can also become by on beingness light-hearted, but it's not really that, either.
Then there's the astringent Ethel Merman, another of those Broadway favorites who never had a good foothold in the movies because she does every performance like she'south trying to accomplish the cheap seats. A palpable hit in "it's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," where she dominated a slate of comedians accustomed to stealing scenes, here she's merely loud and unpleasant.
The one performer adamant to make this movie piece of work is Elke Sommer at her most winsome. Information technology's always overnice to run into a beautiful actress who knows how to utilize her God-given attributes without seeming to. Fifty-fifty with her accent Sommer turns in a fine performance and is utterly likeable and believable.
Garner, half-way between his characters from "The Nifty Escape" and Maverick," is likewise solid, as usual. Van Dyke is nevertheless in his pratfall phase, but he's good at that. Like Sommer, he knew how to use his body as well as his interim talent.
Angie Dickinson gets sort of lost in the shuffle. She simply can't compete with the others.
Sommer, Garner and van Dyke are all fine and don't coast on their charm. And the movie has a good story and suspense. And so what happened?
It's behind the photographic camera where the trouble lies. I mentioned the writing. As a writer myself I tin spot its weaknesses. The script should accept gone through more drafts and another author or two should take been brought in to dial upward the script, express mirth-wise. Garner, van Dyke and Sommer were all proficient at one-act (in i of the best dandy 1960s comedies, "A Shot in the Night," Sommer held her own, up against no less than Peter Sellers). Simply even the all-time actors and comics need good material to piece of work with.
Then there's the direction. Norman Jewison was even so a novice director. Similar Spielberg in "1941" he displays no great flair for one-act early on. Both directors used comedy to good result elsewhere, but what this movie begged for was a Blake Edwards (who was hitting his stride about this time) or even a Frank Tashlin, stepping up from Jerry Lewis flicks. Jewison, not one of my favorite directors anyhow, was non, IMHO, able in his youth to cope with the fabric, which wasn't that good, anyway.
A heartbreaking, monumental waste of talent; and worse, for Hollywood, of a great idea, which they have a paucity of.
But to show yous, I dozed off at about the two-thirds marking. I don't think I ever snoozed during a Garner movie, and certainly not one with Sommer. Information technology'due south one of those movies where you really wish they could get a Mulligan, not counting this i only assembling the same cast (mayhap dumping Merman and replacing her with Hermione Gingold or Elsa Lanchester) and taking another shot at information technology.
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