Mr. Hunter! What do you think you're doing producing such rubbish in 1962? (Let's not forget the powerful Douglas Sirk Universal - Hunter race relations epic Imitation of Life was two years previous.) What is interesting is that ten years from then this would have been total anathema to the box office public - and indeed, it may have only been the Sandra Dee - Bobby Darin popularity with this one that got any bums on seats at all.
'It's a married woman's job to keep a man interested in her.' You know, I don't think we were churning out this sort of stuff in the UK - our women were made of stronger (and more realistic) stuff. (I can't be bothered looking into that further but suspect I'm right.) Anyway Dee's mum Micheline Presle comes up with stupid ideas like the one in the title - flirty Stefanie Powers is the second act complication and Darin's dad Cesar Romero is the third act complication.
The cartoons are quite fun (in fact arguably the best section of the film) but even Russell Metty's lighting can't save it.
Hopeless.
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