This will definitely contain SPOILERS below, so be warned if you have not yet seen this film. Or read on if you want to use your valuable time on something more worthy that this excuse for a film.
Firstly, I'll begin by saying that I do enjoy a good piece of vintage romantic fluff (Doris Day with Rock Hudson or James Garner, for example). Of course, times have changed since those old films were made. So anyone who'd take offense at women whose main aspirations in life were to catch a man and clean his house, skip all of these films. Personally, I enjoy them in the context of their times - mostly.
I recorded it from TV one night, and looked forward to sitting down and watching it while my husband was away (he hates these corny old movies). So I sat down, got comfortable, and pressed "Play".
The premise was fine - three pretty young stewardesses, looking for love and all that stuff. But my word, how desperate were these women?
Pamela Tiffin was good in her role as the annoying, naive young "newbie", but jeez, all that swooning over the first officer was ridiculous! And when he later condescendingly stuck a handkerchief in her mouth to shut her up, in front of his colleagues, she didn't even attempt to remove it, just sat there with it between her lips!
Lois Nettleton, again, very good as the once-bitten and love-shy "Bergie". The fact that she ended up with a man who was essentially a bully used to getting what he wanted, who chose her because she reminded him of his late wife, I didn't get. She was so put off by him shouting at her, calling her by the wife's name and being used as a substitute - then she suddenly had a change of heart when he continued to throw his money around to pursue her? That would be OK if she were a status-and-money-hungry person like Dolores Hart's "Donna", but she wasn't.
As for "Donna", it's not hard to work out why Dolores Hart became a nun, after films like this.
Her character first rebuffed a flirty 1st Class passenger, then did a 180 degree turn on butt kissing when she discovered he was a baron (an impoverished one, but she didn't know that). I'll make a long story short by saying that he used her for something unsavoury and illegal, without her knowledge, which could have cost her many years in prison. During this, he supposedly fell for her (yet continued to use her) - and this was enough "devotion" for her. When he was caught, she decided that she would wait the years for him to get out of prison. How the most "hard boiled" of the three women could fall for someone like this, I have no idea. How did she suddenly become so weak?
As I said to begin with, times were different and most women had different expectations of life than they do now. But even back then, these three characters lacked any self-respect, and were weak and sappy enough to really annoy me.
Firstly, I'll begin by saying that I do enjoy a good piece of vintage romantic fluff (Doris Day with Rock Hudson or James Garner, for example). Of course, times have changed since those old films were made. So anyone who'd take offense at women whose main aspirations in life were to catch a man and clean his house, skip all of these films. Personally, I enjoy them in the context of their times - mostly.
I recorded it from TV one night, and looked forward to sitting down and watching it while my husband was away (he hates these corny old movies). So I sat down, got comfortable, and pressed "Play".
The premise was fine - three pretty young stewardesses, looking for love and all that stuff. But my word, how desperate were these women?
Pamela Tiffin was good in her role as the annoying, naive young "newbie", but jeez, all that swooning over the first officer was ridiculous! And when he later condescendingly stuck a handkerchief in her mouth to shut her up, in front of his colleagues, she didn't even attempt to remove it, just sat there with it between her lips!
Lois Nettleton, again, very good as the once-bitten and love-shy "Bergie". The fact that she ended up with a man who was essentially a bully used to getting what he wanted, who chose her because she reminded him of his late wife, I didn't get. She was so put off by him shouting at her, calling her by the wife's name and being used as a substitute - then she suddenly had a change of heart when he continued to throw his money around to pursue her? That would be OK if she were a status-and-money-hungry person like Dolores Hart's "Donna", but she wasn't.
As for "Donna", it's not hard to work out why Dolores Hart became a nun, after films like this.
Her character first rebuffed a flirty 1st Class passenger, then did a 180 degree turn on butt kissing when she discovered he was a baron (an impoverished one, but she didn't know that). I'll make a long story short by saying that he used her for something unsavoury and illegal, without her knowledge, which could have cost her many years in prison. During this, he supposedly fell for her (yet continued to use her) - and this was enough "devotion" for her. When he was caught, she decided that she would wait the years for him to get out of prison. How the most "hard boiled" of the three women could fall for someone like this, I have no idea. How did she suddenly become so weak?
As I said to begin with, times were different and most women had different expectations of life than they do now. But even back then, these three characters lacked any self-respect, and were weak and sappy enough to really annoy me.