That Touch of Mink

1962 "Insistence! Resistance! Persistence! Co-Existence! It's the year's most uproarious, romantic free-for-all...!"
6.6| 1h39m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 14 June 1962 Released
Producted By: Universal Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.

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Comedy, Romance

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Director

Delbert Mann

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Universal Pictures

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That Touch of Mink Audience Reviews

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
Pat Rowlings Doris Day and Cary Grant were my parents favorites as well as mine. To see That Touch Of Mink in 2018 is a bit of a cringing exercise. Two mega stars in their, let's say, mature years, specially Grant, behaving like adolescents it's a bit hard to take. Doris's character shares an apartment with Audrey Meadows - who I believe also needs some professional attention - they sleep in little twin beds. So bizarre to see. But and here is were the Doris Day mystery resides. I believed her unbelievable character, one hundred per cent. Doris Day was 39, Cary Grant 58 but everything I saw in Doris Days was true. That's why, I presume, this is a favorite comedy of the Coen brothers. My niece, who is 15, saw the film with me and her comment was that Cary Grant's and Gig Young's characters should be arrested. Yes, 2018 is not 1962 and films are socio-historical documents.
liamforeman I can't say I've ever been a fan of the bedroom-farce genre from the 50s/60s. So Doris Day is back as the 40 year old virgin and instead of Rock Hudson as the man who falls for her virginal charms we get CARY GRANT!!!! So we have an aging pushing 40 Doris Day still play the virgin saving herself for marriage whose character is supposed to be around 21 and a very aged Cary Grant play a millionaire who wants to bed her.Okay so that's basically the movie. The only laughs I got were from the supporting cast, notably John Astin and Gig Young. But if we were to think that the two leads who at the time literally could/would have been GRANDPARENTS at their ages, it just seems too stupid and silly to see them having such sexual hang ups. A 40 y/o virgin in Doris Day will not get the guy by holding out. The 60 y/o millionaire would have moved right along to a much younger woman since he was only trying to do her a favor in the first place by trying to deflower what is probably a near menopausal wilting flower by that time.I will never understand why Doris Day wanted to keep her virginal image when she is/was pushing middle age. The camera lens was clouded in her up close moments to hide her age. It was kind of funny, but it wasn't intentional.I did make it through, but it was annoying and for the most part unfunny.
gavin6942 A rich businessman (Cary Grant) and a young woman (Doris Day) are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save her virginity for marriage.First of all, I loved the scene that may have been the inspiration for "She's All That". A secretary takes off her glasses, puts down her hair... and what happens? Absolutely nothing! Brilliant.Nothing terribly special about this film, but it is always a joy to see Cary Grant. He is generally quite a likable chap (even when he is being unlikable, as in "Father Goose"). And Doris Day is alright, too, even if she is strangely cast as someone 15 years younger...I would love to know how accurate the credit card computer room was. I have my doubts, but certainly in those days it was much more about punch cards than anything digital...
mark.waltz An out-of-work blonde beauty encounters a very wealthy diplomat and undergoes fears of re-loosing her virginity without the benefit of a wedding ring. It all starts when Cary Grant's car splatters Doris Day with mud, and his assistant Gig Young is drafted to apologize for him. Day demands that his boss apologize to her in person, but when she sees him, it is her doing the apologizing. Before she can break into "Que Sera Sera", he has her under her spell, and is making arrangements to fly her all over the world in an effort to seduce her. Day won't have any of that without a wedding ring and develops a rash in her nervous condition. Later, she tries to get over her fears by getting drunk before a planned seduction, but all she ends up with is an empty bottle used as a toe condom.In their only film together, Grant and Day make a good pair, but it is very apparent by a reference to Rock Hudson that Grant has taken over what may have been his part. As per usual in this period of his career, Grant gets a younger leading lady (Sophia Loren, Jayne Mansfield, Audrey Hepburn, and Leslie Caron were among the others), but his charm evaporates the age difference. There is a funny recurring gag involving Audrey Meadows (as Day's acerbic roommate) and Gig Young where Meadows, thinking that Young is the rogue out to deflower Ms. Day, keeps attacking him humorously, twice in a New York auto-mat (through the service window no less), and later in her apartment building. John Astin, as a sleazy unemployment center clerk, offers more laughs in his three scenes. "I've got TV dinners", he gleefully announces to the disgusted Ms. Day on their date. "We're having mackerel", he informs her before handing her a bottle of Muscatel. Meadows adds amusement in a role typical in most Doris Day films, having earlier been played by Eve Arden, Mary Wickes and Nancy Walker, and later by Rose Marie and Kaye Ballard on her TV series.An excellent screenplay, beautiful art direction and a stunning fashion show add to the film's charm. Ironically, this is one of the few films where Day does not sing at all, even over the credits.