Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Jean Simmons in a comedy from Stanley Donen...and its a dud? English couple, having had to turn their estate into a tourist spot, have their marriage tested when the wife falls for an American millionaire. Extremely odd picture serves up infidelity as something chic, with the inevitable apologies all around at the end. Donen directs this play-into-film uninventively, with stagy action and camera set-ups. Kerr retains her dignity with a schizophrenic role (her cheating spouse remains saintly!), and Mitchum is droll, but Grant phones his performance in (it seems the older he got, the more he relied on his patented charm). Some cute lines are pretty much buried in the lightweight script; there's no depth to the emotions played out, and no truth in the characters. ** from ****
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