Cliff Richard's last proper movie, it came and went fairly quickly, but it could have worked. I think it was just too cheap.
He plays a merchant banker dude who wants to go to New York but is sent to Birmingham to close some deal. He fals in love with a local girl and a local restaurant.
It's a musical - Richard sings some songs on screen - but also at times it isn't, the songs play on the soundtrack. There's a weird number where he and Anthony Andrews are in a car and a duet between them plays on the soundtrack and they are clearly thinking the song but not singing it. That happens a few times. Lik when Deborah Watling visits him on the boat and he thinks the song, doesn't sing it - why not have him sing it? Was this an artistic decision or to save money?
Deborah Watling is fine I guess. George Cole is terrific as is Hugh Griffith.
I don't mean to be rude but Birmingham isn't that visually pretty. This really needed to be set in say Scotland or Ireland or Brighton or somewhere there were prettier pictures.
I did really like Cliff staying in a funky boat on the canal, that was cool. And the street march.
Not well directed. Works as an ad for a hamburger. Needlessly confusing plot.
No comments:
Post a Comment