Disappointing movie despite a decent set up, location filming in Italy and colour - hoity toity
model Esther Williams crashes on an island inhabited by mysterious loner
Jeff Chandler. Williams and Chandler are a good match - he's a lot more
virile than most of her co-stars, they have chemistry (an affair in
real life), are clearly physical people, and had learned to act well
enough by now. There are a few hot scenes where they are both out of the
water and kiss and are clearly into it.
But it's a
slight story that needed something add - either it should have been done
as a musical, with palm trees, comic relief and songs (it's a shame
Chandler, who could sing, never made a musical) or as an action film,
with baddies and shoot outs, or a character drama with genuinely interesting characters and lots of sexual tension.
This is really a dull drama with a bit of
action towards the end. The characters are all stock - dodgy Italian lover (Carlos Thompson), shallow model (Esther Williams), mysterious man who was actually a war hero and feels guilty for "killing" his ex when really he didn't (Jeff Chandler), wacky locals, sexy naive local girl.
Williams and Chandler were capable of stepping up to the plate but the writers and director Richard Wilson weren't. Really dull.
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