Designing Woman (1957)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray, Tom Helmore, Sam Levene
Synopsis:
A sports writer on a bender meets a clothing designer and they have a whirlwind courtship, whereupon they return to New York and complications set in around his former girlfriend and a mobster he is trying to expose for fight fixing.
Review:
Tired old 'odd couple' narrative presented like an MGM cartoon. The stars enjoy little in the way of chemistry, the Lori Shannon subplot is a storm in a teacup, and the comic relief characters are unfunny. Added to which it is too long and desperately needs the Billy Wilder touch to add some raciness. Minnelli's solution is to finesse the interiors and choreograph a fight scene like the Mickey Spillane ballet in The Band Wagon.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray, Tom Helmore, Sam Levene
Synopsis:
A sports writer on a bender meets a clothing designer and they have a whirlwind courtship, whereupon they return to New York and complications set in around his former girlfriend and a mobster he is trying to expose for fight fixing.
Review:
Tired old 'odd couple' narrative presented like an MGM cartoon. The stars enjoy little in the way of chemistry, the Lori Shannon subplot is a storm in a teacup, and the comic relief characters are unfunny. Added to which it is too long and desperately needs the Billy Wilder touch to add some raciness. Minnelli's solution is to finesse the interiors and choreograph a fight scene like the Mickey Spillane ballet in The Band Wagon.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray, Tom Helmore, Sam Levene
Synopsis:
A sports writer on a bender meets a clothing designer and they have a whirlwind courtship, whereupon they return to New York and complications set in around his former girlfriend and a mobster he is trying to expose for fight fixing.
Review:
Tired old 'odd couple' narrative presented like an MGM cartoon. The stars enjoy little in the way of chemistry, the Lori Shannon subplot is a storm in a teacup, and the comic relief characters are unfunny. Added to which it is too long and desperately needs the Billy Wilder touch to add some raciness. Minnelli's solution is to finesse the interiors and choreograph a fight scene like the Mickey Spillane ballet in The Band Wagon.