Recap: Bo has grown up and spent all his life on a ranch far out in the country in Montana. He is a talented rodeo rider so for the first time he is leaving the ranch to compete at the big rodeo show in Phoenix. He has been a quick learner at everything he tried, but now he will try on girls for the first time, something he clearly knows nothing about.
Comments: Supposedly a romantic comedy starring the legendary Marilyn Monroe, and even if it do star Monroe it isn't that funny, and certainly isn't romantic. The character Bo is supposed to be roguishly naïve and charming I guess, but he is far from it. He is a plain criminal, severely lacking in manners so bad that he doesn't know how to behave inside the limits of the law. Sure, times have changed, but kidnapping was illegal then as it is now.
The movies story is having two major faults, the first being completely predictable. The end and entire development is evident from the first moment Bo and Cherie meets. She will detest him to the end when she suddenly and without any real reason just start loving him and go off to marry. But is shouldn't go that far, because as Bo acts, in broad daylight in front of people and security guards no less, he should be in jail several times over, and for a long time. That he isn't is completely implausible.
Can't say the movie got a happy ending. Bo is such an unsympathetic character that having things going his way is like Lex Luthor winning over Superman. That is, all the time I wished for Bo to be beat. And even if my opinion is partly based on the character I can't really believe that Don Murray was nominated for an Oscar.
Don Murray is making his screen debut, along with Hope Lang and starring alongside Monroe, perhaps the only reason to really watch this.
4/10
Comments: Supposedly a romantic comedy starring the legendary Marilyn Monroe, and even if it do star Monroe it isn't that funny, and certainly isn't romantic. The character Bo is supposed to be roguishly naïve and charming I guess, but he is far from it. He is a plain criminal, severely lacking in manners so bad that he doesn't know how to behave inside the limits of the law. Sure, times have changed, but kidnapping was illegal then as it is now.
The movies story is having two major faults, the first being completely predictable. The end and entire development is evident from the first moment Bo and Cherie meets. She will detest him to the end when she suddenly and without any real reason just start loving him and go off to marry. But is shouldn't go that far, because as Bo acts, in broad daylight in front of people and security guards no less, he should be in jail several times over, and for a long time. That he isn't is completely implausible.
Can't say the movie got a happy ending. Bo is such an unsympathetic character that having things going his way is like Lex Luthor winning over Superman. That is, all the time I wished for Bo to be beat. And even if my opinion is partly based on the character I can't really believe that Don Murray was nominated for an Oscar.
Don Murray is making his screen debut, along with Hope Lang and starring alongside Monroe, perhaps the only reason to really watch this.
4/10