BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

JohnHowardReid Copyright 20 April 1962 by Filmways/Kimco/Embassy Pictures. Released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. New York opening at both the Victoria and Guild: 21 June 1962. U.K. release: July 1962. 115 minutes. SYNOPSIS: Four men rent a New York apartment for a sociology student who is writing a thesis on the American male.COMMENT: It's rather nice to be able to fully agree with all one's colleagues for once. In fact we had the grand idea of writing a joint review, but our editors, alas, could not see the light. This coy, non-sex "comedy" sinks almost irretrievably into the quicksands of thanks-but-no-thanks, thanks to the miscasting of glum, non- personable, far-too-old James Garner as chief "boy". Oscar Homolka is also a dead loss (although it's not his fault, it's his lousy lines), but Tony Randall makes a game attempt to rescue the movie by over-acting with style. He even manages to bring off a mildly amusing running gag. Indeed, except for Garner, and Homolka all the players strive their utmost to lighten the ship from the dead weight of a witless, clumsy script. Even normally lackluster Howard Duff contributes to the entertainment and there nice guest appearances by Jim Backus and William Bendix. Anne Jeffreys from "Zombies in Broadway" still looks great, while Patti Page zings out the title tune with all the elan of a Doris Day. Although forced to make a late entrance, Miss Novak looks absolutely delicious. Slinking around in a variety of becoming costumes, she even manages to partly offset Michael Gordon's sluggish, slow-paced, elephantine, non-inventive direction. Mr. Gordon's ability to handle CinemaScope is zilch. All he can up with are TV-style close-ups – and mostly single close-ups of dreary Garner at that!

Rastamon41 I saw this movie on TCM, got a copy and I can't stop viewing it. This movie is set in the earlier 1960's when sexual material/theme could be discuss in movies, not like the 1930's through the 1950's where the morality codes kept husband and wife in separate beds, and kissing was limited to six seconds. I enjoy this movie about four men approaching middle age trying to spice up their "Boys' Night Out" with a 24 year old blonde, but they are mostly talk, and the blonde (Kim Novak) realized that they are all talk and played along, except she falls in love with the only bachelor (James Garner) of the group, and he also falls madly in love with her, now the fun start. He wants out, so he can be with her and to marry her, she also want him, but the three other guy have other ideas, they don't want to lose their "24 year blonde" on "Boys' Night Out". She don't want them, she want James Garner, and he want Kim Novak, you get it? I won't spoil it for you, get this movie, you won't regret it.

moonspinner55 Group of wolfish businessmen--only one of whom is not married--rent a bachelor-pad for fun nights away from their wives and hire Kim Novak to be their resident play-thing; she agrees, but only because she has plans of her own. Smarmy set-up, surprisingly cynical for 1962, and ultimately a laughless sex farce. The whole scenario is rather offensive, and while the film doesn't exactly push the envelope for bedroom comedies, it's full of limp pseudo-smut, poshly-furnished and yet depressingly lascivious. Kim Novak tries to overcome the situation with her heavy-lidded, low-keyed classiness, but there's not much of a character here and she ends up just being a fashion plate; she's here to be ogled. James Garner is, once again, a handsome hole in the screen. NO STARS from ****

ciscokidsmail If your movie tastes are regulated by the PC Police, then forget this movie. On the other hand, if your sensibilities have reached the adult level, you will really like this movie.This is a story about three guys (yes, two were married) who were in a rut and thought that an affair would be just the ticket to put some juice back into their lives. They find that an affair is far more difficult than they had imagined. Really funny.I will not spoil the plot for you, but no one is harmed, and the plot is hilarious.A well done comedy and a great example of what movies were before the computer geeks started overwhelming the story lines with so called special effects.