SoTrumpBelieve Must See Movie...

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

edalweber I have always liked this movie, as a nice relaxing movie when you are depressed.The cast is uniformly well suited to their roles, especially Kovacs as the nasty tyrannical railroad tycoon, he couldn't be improved upon.The wonderful old steam locomotives is one of the stars, and provides some of the best scenes. It has its serious side as an example of someone standing up for principle regardless of the odds, something all too rare today. Some people consider using the train to be far-fetched, and maybe it is. But sadly by far the most far-fetched thing in today's society is everyone being shamed by Georges wonderful and elequent speech and rallying to the support of their neighbor.In todays society that is less likely than the train lifting off the tracks and flying. but the beauty of the countryside and the village are lasting and endearing. and as an escape to the America that once was, even if idealized it provides some escapist comfort

LouE15 Oh my golly gosh, another squeaky romance…perky Doris Day does her best Doris Day impression; Jack Lemmon tries to stay afloat and a host of cutesy elements battle for supremacy. The story is so so…widowed Jane Osgood (Day) is raising children and lobsters in Maine, when her business is derailed by an abrupt decision by a railway boss. With the help of her longtime friend George (Lemmon), her neighbours and the press, she takes on the railway.Jack Lemmon is such a good actor, he seems a bit wasted here. I never saw less chemistry between two leads (except maybe when real-life couples appear on screen!). Maybe it was just me, but I found their single, anti-climactic kiss as sexless as Doris Day's screen persona. This feels like a real shame, since no one does pathos like Lemmon, and his kindness to Jane – looking after her kids, supporting her in his way – seems to deserve a proper love scene, not one in which the train takes the applause. Yes, I get that it's funny – but it could have been funny and sweet and foolish too, no? – instead of just rushed? The best comedy has a bit of sadness to it.I can't help but feel that George/Lemmon is emasculated – and that this isn't resolved at all in the film, despite the powerhouse speech he gives, despite his eventually taking action, and despite Jane's finally choosing him. When she shrills out "George!" for the umpteenth time, Lemmon's scowl is straight out of his drag gig in "Some Like It Hot" which doesn't help his position as the 'love' interest. Even the woodenness of his square-jawed journalist 'rival' doesn't make poor old George look more interesting or masculine. If I was George I'd have taken up with the lobsters (he'd get more lovin').So generally this left me a bit cold, and I find I very much prefer the slightly darker Doris that you can see in "Love Me or Leave Me" with James Cagney. (If even that Doris doesn't work for you, try any 50's Douglas Sirk melodrama.) And as for Jack Lemmon, I'll seek him out in any great tragicomedy, since that was clearly his great gift.

mrsastor This has to be the most underrated and overlooked of the comedies from Doris Day's later career. I'm surprised at the relatively low score it has received here on IMDb, as it's a really fun and entertaining movie (particularly following the unfortunate Tunnel of Love she appeared in the prior year).Rather than the lush, opulent interiors and wardrobe we usually look forward to in a Day comedy, this one is stunning for its exteriors. Filmed in New England in the summer of 1958, the film exudes idyllic small town splendor. Day plays Jane Osgood, a widowed entrepreneur (all "independent" women in 1950's TV or movies are either widows, as in Lucille Ball's later television work, or impossible-to-marry shrews like Joan Crawford in The Best of Everything). Osgood operates a budding lobster business, and when an expensive shipment is ruined by the laxity of the railroad, she takes on railroad magnet Harry Foster Malone in a highly publicized David & Goliath lawsuit. Ernie Kovacs is particularly memorable in his portrayal of Harry Foster Malone, an obvious and amusing allusion to Orson Welles' Charles Foster Kane, which was of course an allusion to William Randolph Hurst. In her legal battle, Osgood enlists the aid of local attorney and old friend George Denham, the man she's "supposed" to be with and just doesn't realize it, played well by a young Jack Lemmon. Throughout the course of the story, the film seems to at regular intervals inject some rather insightful observations on a multitude of thought-provoking topics, including the place and nature of democracy in a capitalist society, the overwhelming power wielded by big business, even the (at the time) ever expanding place of television in our lives and its ability to influence and inform. And all of this in a comedy! The only negative I can think of is the inclusion of perhaps the worst musical number ever put on film. Jane Osgood is the den mother of the local boy-scout troop (naturally) and at the camp out in her back yard she leads them in a sing-a-long of the single most stupid, dreadful and endless song you ever heard in your life. "Be Prepared"…well they warned you! It starts out as amusingly bad, but then seems to last about fifteen or twenty minutes until you think you'd rather take your own life than hear one more note. Any self-respecting boy scout over the age of five would kick you right in the nuts if you asked him to sing this wretched torturous piece of nonsense.This aside (it is unfortunately not that uncommon in films of this era), this film benefits well from a strong, well written script and an excellent cast. It is actually much more intelligent and heart-warming than any of the Doris Day-Rock Hudson pairings, and while it is a very different kind of film, it can hold its own against any of those. Highly recommended, but be prepared to hit the "mute" button when those boy-scouts start singing!

bgarry999 This is a fun period movie. It's a great snap shot of rural New England in the late 1950's. I remember watching this movie when I was a young boy growing up in the Hartford area of Connecticut. Thought the story is about the fictitious town, Cape Anne, Maine, the story was actually filmed in Connecticut. I remember everyone being excited about the movie because they had filmed scenes at the Hartford Railroad Station, one being where George kisses Jane. Back then we all had traveled someplace from the Hartford Station. The movie's vivid color gives us great views of the landscape, the old New England houses, stores, churches, and court house. The "Town Meeting" as it was, and still is, in some ways still in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The various types of cars of the time, and of course the different trains. It's a great story of the little guy (gal in this case) against the big corporation. Doris Day and Jack Lemmmon are at their best as well as the supporting cast. This is a movie the whole family can sit down to and have a great time, especially if you are from New England.