There are more fumes than fire in this film. And some of those fumes are downright stinky. Rita Hayworth's performance is silly to the point of being laughable. She barely mumbles her way through in what I've got to assume is supposed to be a sexy voice but comes across as a parody of herself as the female lead in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Jack Lemmon, spoiled playboy son of a wealthy man befriends vagobond loser Mitchum and both wind up with fading femme fatale Hayworth in a romp in a boat.
A large part of the problem of the movie is that it can't decide what it wants to be. It starts out as what seems to be a lighthearted musical (which captured my interest considering I'd never seen any of these three leads in a musical). But then the road suddenly dips into adventure, then suddenly turns into sultry love story, then adventure, then drama then...Well, frankly I lost count...then suddenly you're thrown against a wall as it comes to a sudden stop. But none of these bends in the road were done well. They should have stuck to the music because that was the most memorable part.
Jack Lemmon made the movie and it might be worth watching for him alone. But otherwise it is a dull flicker of what should have been a fiery film.
Jack Lemmon, spoiled playboy son of a wealthy man befriends vagobond loser Mitchum and both wind up with fading femme fatale Hayworth in a romp in a boat.
A large part of the problem of the movie is that it can't decide what it wants to be. It starts out as what seems to be a lighthearted musical (which captured my interest considering I'd never seen any of these three leads in a musical). But then the road suddenly dips into adventure, then suddenly turns into sultry love story, then adventure, then drama then...Well, frankly I lost count...then suddenly you're thrown against a wall as it comes to a sudden stop. But none of these bends in the road were done well. They should have stuck to the music because that was the most memorable part.
Jack Lemmon made the movie and it might be worth watching for him alone. But otherwise it is a dull flicker of what should have been a fiery film.