Hitchcock’s last film as director is cheerful, inoffensive entertainment, in the Trouble With Harry vein, though without the same energy. It’s quite an ugly film to look at – it’s shot like a Universal 70s TV show, and is full of brown colours, and dust, and non-glamorous people. Bruce Dern and especially Barbara Harris are engaging as the con artist lead couple – you just wish they had been more attractively shot, or something (when they have their double entendre chats it’s a little off – or at least a long way from Cary Grant and Grace Kelly). William Devane and Karen Black are fine, but a long way from Claude Rains and Judith Anderson… that’s the problem with Hitchcock, you watched it weighed down by history. There’s also a lack of memorable set pieces – some fans argue the car going out of control but that’s not sensational – you’d see it on TV. Having said that it’s light, bright, and passes the time.
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