Others of prominence in the cast are Polly Bergen as the sexually-obsessed second wife (it’s never really much of a contest between her and Day), Thelma Ritter as the understanding mother-in-law, and Chuck Connors as the male animal who shared the small island hunk of real estate alone with Day for five years. For what is basically just a very funny sixties comedy film, Move Over Darling comes with a lot of baggage. What is missing in their portrayals is a light touch -# the ability to humorously convey with a subtle eyelash-bat or eyebrow-arch what it tends to take them a kick in the shins to accomplish. The ‘blue’ isn’t of a really offensive nature.ĭoris Day and James Garner play it to the hilt, comically, dramatically and last, but not least (particularly in the case of the former), athletically. The ‘borrowed’, to cite one example, is a telephone sequence that owes more than a little something to Shelley Berman. The ‘new’ are the chiefly lacklustre embellishments tagged on.
The ‘old’ is the basic yarn about the guy who remarries five years after his first wife is thought to have perished only to have his first wife turn up alive and kicking at the outset of his honeymoon. Thelma Ritter Don Knotts Chuck Connors Edgar Buchanan Max Showalter John Astin Fred Clark I always like to highlight the character actors in a film.
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