It’s minor Wilder but an entertaining comedy with solid performances from Ewell and Monroe
It’s famous and film lore now because of the air vent skirt scene
She just plays “the girl” in the credits
It would be the one great performance for Ewell- he’s a talented comedian and was good in a supporting role in adam’s rib in 1949 backing up tracy and Hepburn—the role really wouldn’t work at all with a good-looking star like Sinatra or Cary Grant
It’s a situation sex comedy—“what would you do if your wife and kids were gone for the summer at the summer house and Marilyn Monroe was house-sitting for the neighbors? Haha
Riffs the beach scene from from here to eternity quite hilariously
This isn’t really cinema analysis but the leopard skin dress on Monroe looks like paint
The surrealism and wandering imagination and fantasy sequences are really the movie- similar to Christmas story or play it again, sam. A very good scene of the wife coming home to catch him and she’s bolstering a gun—the use of cinemascope in the surrealism sequences is key- there’s a dream to one side of the frame and goes in and out. Without these sequences I think the film would seem unsaveably stage-bound
A broader comedy for wilder— which is not a compliment
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