By talent, I mean, specifically Suzanne Pleshette, who was as wonderful as humanly possible with the material she had to work with and the same holds true for Don Ameche. All of the other cast members made the effort but there were just no goods to deliver. Hy Averback did not direct another theatrical release for 14 years and that one, Where The Boys Are, was also disappointing and understandably, his last one. If you have said to yourself once or twice in the past, "what a great title" I should probably give it a chance, do not do it. The title was all there was. In an effort to see my warning in print I must add a few more words to it. The basic thrust of the movie seems to indicate some bad feeling between the right wing heirarchy of a small southwestern town and the soldiers at the nearby base, so Brian Keith who has no experience in community relations is brought in to help. There he runs into old comrades, Tony Curtis and Ivan Dixon, who, being Black, must endure a slew of poorly written and mostly tasteless ethnic jokes at his expense. It's not worth the effort.
