Allen had already enjoyed a hit on Broadway with Don’t Drink the Water but this helped establish him as a dramatic (well, comic dramatic) star. He admits to copying the structure of The Seven Year Itch; like that play, all the fantasy bits are amusing but get tiring after a while – there are too many of them, and the device has been copied too much. And it’s a little yuck he’s basically trying to seduce his best friend’s wife. But Allen’s character remains enjoyable, Bogie is a great foil, and some of the gags are still hilarious (eg “what are you doing on Saturday/killing myself/what about Friday”).
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