Sounds like a dream combination - Joe Mankiewicz, Rex Harrison and Ben Jonson - but it doesn't come off. Harrison is deal for Mankiewicz's dialogue but the talk is of poor quality and Cliff Robertson, an actor I like, feels terribly miscast and all wrong.
The women aren't up to it - Susan Hayward, Edie Adams and Capucine have all been good in other stuff but aren't here. (I think Mankiewicz was throwing back to Letter to Three Wives by having a trio.) The exception is Maggie Smith who is very good.
It isn't much of a story. Confusing set up. There's a murder mystery but you don't care who dunnit.
This was really disappointing.
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