You have to make allowances for its time. What was "naughty" in 1963 is mild stuff today. Given that, it's a fun movie, thanks to a clever story, a first-rate cast, and a couple of nice songs.
Cliff Robertson shows real comic timing, with Rod Taylor something of a straight man. Taylor is, as usual, a likable fellow--quite masculine but perfectly willing in this part to let himself be socked in the face a couple of times, splashed by passing trucks, and subjected to the baleful eye of Robertson as the protective big brother. Jane Fonda is just right as a young woman both virginal and luscious.
The film has many ingredients hinting at the sophistication of the Kennedy era--the sophisticated bachelor apartment, Peter Nero's night club music, and especially New York as a really great place to be when you are young enough and accomplished enough to enjoy it. New York as a city infested with crime and on the verge of bankruptcy was a dozen years in the future.
One notices the easy confidence of the male characters. Much would change, starting soon after the picture was made with JFK's assassination and followed by years of turmoil and grief, as well as rapid progress for women and, at least politically, for blacks. White males would never again rule the roost unchallenged.
Cliff Robertson shows real comic timing, with Rod Taylor something of a straight man. Taylor is, as usual, a likable fellow--quite masculine but perfectly willing in this part to let himself be socked in the face a couple of times, splashed by passing trucks, and subjected to the baleful eye of Robertson as the protective big brother. Jane Fonda is just right as a young woman both virginal and luscious.
The film has many ingredients hinting at the sophistication of the Kennedy era--the sophisticated bachelor apartment, Peter Nero's night club music, and especially New York as a really great place to be when you are young enough and accomplished enough to enjoy it. New York as a city infested with crime and on the verge of bankruptcy was a dozen years in the future.
One notices the easy confidence of the male characters. Much would change, starting soon after the picture was made with JFK's assassination and followed by years of turmoil and grief, as well as rapid progress for women and, at least politically, for blacks. White males would never again rule the roost unchallenged.