Review of One Touch of Venus

I like Robert Walker, he is always nice to watch, and Ava Gardner is great as the sexy Venus of this film. Yet the film strains continuously to be funny but doesn't quite make it a lot of the time, meaning that the film starts to get boring after a while. I am not a massive fan of Dick Haymes which didn't help my opinion of the film get any better. Yet nevertheless this film manages somehow to be reasonably entertaining, with occasional funny gags (like the police in the park pulling snoggers apart to find Robert Walker) and the thing which I liked most about this film was the inclusion of the famous song "Speak Low (When You Speak Love)", a truly lovely melody. Even Dick Haymes gives a reasonable performance of it (oh alright, Dick Haymes wasn't that bad). "That Touch of Venus" will give reasonable entertainment when it doesn't lapse into soppy schmaltz. Enjoy it! 7/10