This was one of the two films Diana Dors made for RKO in the US. It was also one of two starring vehicles for George Gobel, who I have not seen in anything before this - he had a weekly comedy show. From what I gather Gobel became famous playing a lonesome type. Here he's married to Diana Dors playing an advertising executive.
The plot is sitcom - Gobel has to come up with an ad campaign. He neglects his wife... Dors. Seriously?
How are they married? Why would he neglect her? Why would we be supposed to care?
It ambles along. Gobel has a lethargic screen presence. Dors, typically, gives her all. She looks terrific, has strong comic timing. But she's just so miscast and the vehicle so bad. It needed to be in colour.
John Wayne appears in a gag cameo, as a character in a movie appearing opposite Angie Dickinson. That's funny - as is his reprise at the end.
The incompetence of this movie made me angry. Its dopiness. The fact it took a sitcom plot and padded it out to feature length. Its miscast stars. The lack of colour or point. The waste of support characters like Adolphe Menjou and Jesse Royce Landis.
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