MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Wizard-8 "Sunday in New York" is a pretty charming comedy, quite quaint compared to the raunchy comedies coming out today - which is why I was quick to embrace it. Actually, the movie does deal with a topic that's still quite hot today - sex. In fact, the movie is quite open about the topic of pre-marital sex compared to a number of other 1960s Hollywood movies. (The reference to "handball" is quite an eyebrow raiser - I can't believe it got by censors of the time!) However, the movie's main aim is to make the audience laugh, and while I didn't laugh out loud at any moment, I did smile a lot at the humor. It's very agreeable.I will freely admit that the movie isn't perfect. It's a bit long, and the stage origins of the material are pretty evident at times. Also, Rod Taylor's character is quite obnoxious to start off with, so much so that it's hard to see why Fonda's character get attracted to him (though he does become palatable by the end.) But these are minor quibbles in an otherwise enjoyable (and interesting) movie.

CitizenCaine Jane Fonda stars as virginal Eileen Tyler and Cliff Robertson as Adam Tyler her brother in this pleasant risqué (for the time) comedy set in New York. Fonda comes into her own in this film in more of a starring role (in terms of actual screen time) than in her previous films. She plays a virgin who is growing impatiently curious about sex because of her fiancé's delayed proposal when she meets Mike Mitchell, played by Rod Taylor, on a bus on a Sunday afternoon in New York. Robert Culp is Russ Wilson, Fonda's out-of-town fiancé. Complications ensue when Robertson, Taylor, and Culp end up at Robertson's apartment with Fonda needing to explain who is who. Comedy and handling of subject matter, daring then, is dated now but fun nevertheless.Fonda is pretty good in this role; Robertson is good as Fonda's pilot playboy brother who spends the length of the film trying to get a day off with his fiancé Mona Harris played by Jo Morrow. Taylor is suave but becomes uncharacteristically awkward when caught with Fonda in Robertson's apartment. Culp is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as Fonda's out-of-town fiancé. The New York location shooting is fun and breezy, including a scene in Central Park with Jim Hutton appearing briefly in a row boat. Jim Backus plays the chief pilot. Peter Nero appears in the film at his club playing piano of course. Mel Torme sings the title song. Norman Krasna wrote the screenplay based on his Broadway play. **1/2 of 4 stars.

bkoganbing Sunday In New York has Jane Fonda in her ingénue days as a kid from Albany visiting New York to see big brother Cliff Robertson who looks like he lives pretty good on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as an airline pilot. She's just broken up with Robert Culp who is from a rich family of movers and shakers in Albany and the reason she confides to Robertson is that Culp wants a little sample of marriage life and Jane is determined to remain virginal. At her age that wears better than on Doris Day.So when Robertson gets a call from the airlines which is also interrupting his social life with Jo Morrow that duty calls, Fonda is left to her own devices in that swank Manhattan apartment. So on a Fifth Avenue bus which back in the day cost 15 cents to ride she meets Rod Taylor and the two of them are starting to get serious. Yes it did cost only 15 cents to ride a bus in New York City, I well remember it.The usual complications arise from a very typical early Sixties sex comedy where as I said Fonda is poaching on Doris Day territory. Taylor is quite the romantic figure and Culp gives an interesting performance as a man really quite taken with himself.Sunday In New York was adapted by Norman Krasna from his own successful Broadway play that ran for 188 performances in the 1961-62 season. Fonda's role got a Tony Award for Pat Stanley whom I saw on Broadway in Fiorello and the Rod Taylor part was played by future movie superstar Robert Redford who won an award from Theater World. Krasna managed successfully to transfer Sunday In New York to the big screen and take it from the Robertson apartment where the entire play takes place on stage.Sunday In New York is an interesting look at our American mores from the Kennedy years and could probably be remade today with a little more frankness.

pine-8 Saw this picture when it first came out (I was 16). NY looked great, Apartment in SNY still cool today 40 + years later! Have original soundtrack album with fantastic Peter Nero score, too bad no Mel Tormé swinging arrangement of title song on this album. At the 'hip' Club Nero, Peter plays song 'HELLO' which is also sung by someone in his combo, CANNOT find this performer's name or recording ANYWHERE?? Anyone out there know? BTW A nice trip back to great looking NY, and the morals of a sweeter gentler time...It's a great trip back to see IDLEWILD airport before it changed to ''KENNEDY''.Imagine the surprise of younger people seeing passengers boarding planes with no security, a little bit like stepping in to a first class restaurant!Must see flick!