A kind hearted cop drops a 17yo criminal off at a wealthy writers house because he doesn't want her to spend xmas in jail and somehow knows that a writer is thinking about writing a script about juvenile delinquents and how she'd be the perfect girl for his story and that she could stay with him until after Xmas when she'd have to appear in court and then drop a romantic angle to it. This was based on a play? Who the heck would produce such a laughably bad implausible story.
Let's also take a look at our main players . Dick Powell who plays Mark the writer , Debbie Reynolds as Susan the juvenile delinquent and Anne Francis as Isabel(Mark's date mate) , the irritating Alvy Moore also plays a scheming little rat of an assistant hired by Mark. I just can't buy the Susan - Mark romantic angle that develops. He is supposed to be 35 and she 17 when we all know damn well that he looks much older and that she is older than 17 herself. In reality Powell was 50 and Reynolds was 22 and certainly with the way she swished around the room in some scenes was quite evident how far removed from 17 she was. Reynolds also overacts especially when she first appears on screen acting like a spoiled brat yelling and screaming doing the tomboy routine that is so bad its hard to watch. Powell doesn't fare much better , he simply looks bored half the time with this empty expression on his face - how could anyone be sexually attracted to him . Francis is nothing more than wasted eye candy and the only scene she really has a chance to act turns into a whining bitch scene -showing how bad the script is as well as her acting. Alvy Moore also overacts and really slimes it up on screen and to me never does anything more than sleepwalk through his lines. I was hoping he'd step into an elevator and have it fall 20 stories.
The movie sags and drags with a really anti climatic ending and talk about sugary sap - a birdcage swing ???. And this is supposed to be a rocom? More like a bombcom.
Let's also take a look at our main players . Dick Powell who plays Mark the writer , Debbie Reynolds as Susan the juvenile delinquent and Anne Francis as Isabel(Mark's date mate) , the irritating Alvy Moore also plays a scheming little rat of an assistant hired by Mark. I just can't buy the Susan - Mark romantic angle that develops. He is supposed to be 35 and she 17 when we all know damn well that he looks much older and that she is older than 17 herself. In reality Powell was 50 and Reynolds was 22 and certainly with the way she swished around the room in some scenes was quite evident how far removed from 17 she was. Reynolds also overacts especially when she first appears on screen acting like a spoiled brat yelling and screaming doing the tomboy routine that is so bad its hard to watch. Powell doesn't fare much better , he simply looks bored half the time with this empty expression on his face - how could anyone be sexually attracted to him . Francis is nothing more than wasted eye candy and the only scene she really has a chance to act turns into a whining bitch scene -showing how bad the script is as well as her acting. Alvy Moore also overacts and really slimes it up on screen and to me never does anything more than sleepwalk through his lines. I was hoping he'd step into an elevator and have it fall 20 stories.
The movie sags and drags with a really anti climatic ending and talk about sugary sap - a birdcage swing ???. And this is supposed to be a rocom? More like a bombcom.