Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

weezeralfalfa Kim Novak plays the most popular commercial floozy in the small town of Climax, NV. She lives in a small trailer in back of the Bellybutton roadhouse, where she usually hangs out otherwise. She goes by the concocted name of Polly the Pistol. In her trailer, she keeps a talkative parrot who's hooked on shoot 'em up TV westerns, which Polly provides.. It continuously screeches "Bang, Bang" in imitation of the TV sound. Thus, the parrot could also reasonably be named Polly the Pistol, and I suspect Polly dubbed herself likewise. The "Bang, Bang", every time we get a peak in the trailer, serves as one of several running gags. Another involves Ray Walston, as Orville: the town piano teacher, and unknown composer of tunes. He's married to the prettiest girl in town(Felicia Farr, as Zelda), and is constantly obsessed by the suspicion that various men are having or trying to have an affair with her. Thus, because Zelda is going to the dentist every 3 months, he suspects the dentist. Because she leaves notes for the milkman, he's another suspect whom Orville berates. He even accuses his14y.o. piano student of trying to muscle in. Of course, when Zelda's favorite singer: womanizing Dino(Dean Martin), unexpectedly shows up in town, with a car problem engineered by Orville's songwriting buddy Barney, Orville's paranoia goes through the roof. On the other hand, they want Dino to stay in town long enough to hear several of their songs, which they hope he will promote. But how to entice him to stay at Orville's to hear the songs, yet keep him from bedding Zelda, in Orville's mind? Barney gets the brilliant idea of enticing Polly to stay overnight at Orville's, masquerading as Zelda, while they somehow get rid of Zelda, probably by making her upset, so she runs off to her parents for the night....Well, things don't quite work out as planned. I will let you see how things get snarled up, and Orville's worst nightmare happens. (You can see the movie at YouTube). At least, as a result of all the maneuvering, some of the pair's songs get published, Dino sings them on TV, and they make enough money to buy Polly a car, so she can take her trailer somewhere else, and start her life over......The whole screenplay comes across like a beefed up episode of "I Love Lucy", with it's contrived craziness......Dean was fine as an exaggerated version of his typical stage persona. At first, Polly was too defensive against Dino's advances. Polly often walked and danced with a Marilyn Monroe wiggle......I enjoyed Cliff Osmond's Barney, as Orville's goofy, but imaginative, friend, and sometimes go between. Ray Walston , as Orville, was fine, though perhaps he lacked the charisma factor that Jack Lemmon would have brought to the role.(Felicia was then married to Jack). Felicia succeeded in being desirable without being a siren. She had lost her unusual innocent-looking face and shy personality she exhibited 8 years earlier in 2 westerns("Jubal", and "The Last Wagon"),hence I didn't recognize her. Her acting career was mostly spent on TV rather than in Hollywood, where she was included in the occasional film. See this fun B&W film at YouTube.

StrictlyConfidential When it comes to this 1965 film's title - "Kiss Me, Stupid" - I really don't get the "Kiss Me" part of it - But - The "Stupid" part of it pretty much says everything that needs to be said (in a nutshell) about this ridiculously contrived rubbish.And, speaking about this film's 3 principal actors - Dean Martin, Kim Novak, and Ray Walston - I really can't decide which one of this terrible trio put in the most cringe-worthy performance of all.Was it Dean? - Who was basically just playing himself - (But he just couldn't do it convincingly)Was it Kim? - Who (once again) was playing a cheap, white-trash tart. (Yawn!)Was it Ray? - Who (as the annoyingly eccentric Orville Spooner character) was chewing up the scenery, left, right, and centre.Anyway - It really doesn't matter much who was the worst - 'Cause, unfortunately, as a combined trio they, literally, tore this film's unfunny story right up into absolute shreds.

rewolfsonlaw Difficult for me NOT to give this movie an IMDb score of 10. Absolutely charming from beginning to end. I'm well aware of Billy Wilder, his reputation as a GREAT director who made great films. STILL, I not only had never seen this, I was totally unaware of it.It is great: incredibly funny, well written, touchingly directed (the long shots of Mrs. Spooner's dress model, the closing of doors and opening of windows...on and on, just brilliant. Peter Sellers and Marilyn Monroe for the leads? Maybe, but why? In fact, no, no, no. Walston and Novack are perfect in their imperfection, playing regular people in a Hollywood invades reality comedy of (ill)manners. Dean Martin is perfectly, ideally cast in a role written for the role Hollywood wrote for him- playing a role within a role and ONLY Billy Wilder could write and direct a role for real people's roles. What genius.Just relax and enjoy this early 60's romp, from trailer to bedroom to Sam the parrot, "bang, bang!"No loose ends. A great finish. Don't miss a second. Why I don't give this a 10, I don't know. Maybe because they didn't let Ray Walston sing. Maybe there are better movies...Citizen Kane, Casablanca....but this'll do for great comedy. A perfect representative of its time, even better today. Daring; just plain great.

Alanjackd I can well imagine in its day this was regarded as risqué or even vulgar but looking now as i've just rediscovered Billy Wilder it stands the test of time and is probably in the Billy W top 3. Dean Martin sends himself up something stupid...Baby...and Kim Novak is such a good actress I can't imagine anybody else being good enough or brave enough to pull it off. Crammed full of innuendo and beautifully filmed in b&w where colour was available is a stroke of genius as it takes away the rear scenery and makes the characters stand out. The guy who plays the Petrol attendant steals every scene he is in and the whole cast seem to have so much fun. This movie is a dream from credit to credit.All the way through the movie I sensed a backdrop of small town madness and the score is haunting at times. This could have been a Hitchcock comedy. Best line for me.."If you want action Buddy,go to the Bellybutton" cracks me up every time.In fact I'm gonna watch it again.