Q had to abandon ship as the picture was fuzzy and the dialogue often inaudible - the foley, she observed, was louder than the talking - weird, considering Hitch's attention to sound detail.
It's quite lively, cinematically, played much for laughs, partly inspired by a cruise the Hitchcocks had been on. Henry Kendall as the husband is wholly unsympathetic and a complete brute (and not much of an actor). Joan Barry and Percy Marmont are warmer figures but the 'Princess' Betty Amman is horrible! (And not much of an actress.)
The film was originally intended to end - so he told Peter Bogdanovich - with the couple arriving back and telling the story of Hitch himself, who responds 'No, I don't think it will make a movie'.
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