Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

robert-mulqueen I watched most of this 1957 film on Turner Classic tonight. I had never heard of it. It promised to be a "four Navy buddies on shore leave and assorted pranks" flick, particularly with the thought that it featured Jayne Mansfield. I figured that Cary Grant really needed to pay alimony. However, two things about the film kept me from turning it off. The first was Suzy Parker. The second was very much unexpected and it was a ribbon through the screenplay which began to shine in Grant's lines telling off the ship building tycoon played by Leif Ericson. While I realize that the film was made twelve years after the close of the Second World War, this was no sentimental script which appealed to an audience's passions for a war in progress. Grant's Navy aviator was sick and tired of the war, of combat, of the blood and gore, of picking up after the guy next to him is blown into twelve pieces. Grant's character again displays a cynicism about the war when he tells a whopper to an inquiring reporter in a nightclub.The screenplay was even more remarkable when you realize that this movie was released in 1957....just on the late fringe of McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare. It is a tepid film at best, but a tip of the hat to Cary Grant for portraying a realistic warrior who conveys that he is sick and tired of the gore of war.

Edgar Soberon Torchia A much better comedy than what I had read about it, "Kiss Them for Me" begins much in the vein of "The Honeymoon Machine (three military fellows and two girls in a hotel), but it turns into an antiwar product (predating the Vietnam war demonstrations), partially ruined by its propaganda resolution (who would go back to war like the three main characters do?) after its frequent condemnation of war horror, its male lead's cynic view of patriotism, and the general consensus of making love instead of war. But then it is asking too much from this motion picture, before the days of "Alice's Restaurant". Instead you have Jayne Mansfield, who although receiving top credit, plays a character that has little to do with the core of the story. Her Alice is above anything else comic relief, a titillating sex joke, and she is very funny when interplaying with Nathaniel Frey or Ray Walston. The story is more inclined to "respectability", as it concentrates in the development of the friendship between Cary Grant (as a pilot hero) and Suzy Parker (as a resourceful socialite), even if both do not have the formulaic profile of most so-called «sophisticated comedies». Grant is good as usual, and Parker is fine in her first starring role, although I read that she was dubbed, so sometimes her delivery sounds rather flat or too distant. Stanley Donen almost never disappoints in this kind of product, so watch "Kiss Them for Me", and enjoy it for what it is.

sartoris22 Kiss Them for Me is one of the more interesting Cary Grant movies because, like his best work with Hitchcock, Grant plays against type, as a naval officer on a four day leave whose only mission is to...well, enjoy the company of a woman. That he chooses the ravishing model Suzy Parker as his love target adds to the appeal of the movie, as does Grant's smooth but dogged pursuit of his goal. Throughout her scenes with Grant, Parker tries to get him to declare feelings other than carnal ones, but Grant's character never really wavers in his pursuit, and we witness a different type of Grant character, who unapologetically uses his considerable charm to accomplish something that is neither noble nor particularly gentlemanly. Even in Hitchcock films, Grant's more suspect character traits are redeemed in the end by noble purpose; however, in Kiss Them for Me, Grant is charming without being virtuous, although he is serious about his commitment to the navy and to his men. Some might find the Grant character unnecessarily misogynistic but his portrayal of the officer rings true for a man who has seen much fighting and war without the more civilizing company of women. This is a harder, edgier Grant, and it is a delight to watch his characterization. I've long thought it a loss that Grant did not do more edgy roles--for example, I think he would have a made a brilliant Phillip Marlow in The Big Sleep--but Kiss Them for Me gives us more than a taste of Grant's range as an actor and piques our curiosity about other more dangerous roles he might have played in his long and illustrious movie career.

Fritz-31 An interesting footnote is that "Kiss Them for Me" marked the screen debut of the Evil Extra, then an undergraduate at UC Berkeley. He can be seen deliberately compromising the continuity of the scenes of the arrival at the Fairmont Hotel: he appears first as a straw-hatted stroller on the sidewalk outside, then faces the camera as part of the crowd just inside the lobby door, then (a few moments later) stands behind the concierge desk during a foreground dialog shot.The Evil Extra was seen most recently standing at ringside in 2001's "Ocean's Eleven," mouthing an obscenity as Julia Roberts and Andy Garcia make their escape from the MGM arena.