After the film performances that Clifton Webb, Jane Wyman and Paul Henreid gave us, it was so disappointing to see them in this terrible off-beat comedy. It's the only generation gap as the usual erudite Clifton Webb has to be subjected to with his two daughters. Jane Wyman is really the passive wife who agrees with the daughters when both find love in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Henried is along for the ride. For a part of the picture, we're led to believe that he courting the older daughter, much younger than him. Then we discover that it's his adopted son who is vying for the love of the daughter. As the younger daughter, Carol Lynley is largely deprived of her usual emotional outbursts. To me, she was always the younger version of a Joanne Woodward in emotional entanglements in movies. Here she falls for army man Gary Crosby. He looks so much like his famous crooner father in this film.
Webb proves at the end that he too is a vulnerable person, but by then you get the drift where the movie is going,and it's just as well that the screen lights up with the end.
Henried is along for the ride. For a part of the picture, we're led to believe that he courting the older daughter, much younger than him. Then we discover that it's his adopted son who is vying for the love of the daughter. As the younger daughter, Carol Lynley is largely deprived of her usual emotional outbursts. To me, she was always the younger version of a Joanne Woodward in emotional entanglements in movies. Here she falls for army man Gary Crosby. He looks so much like his famous crooner father in this film.
Webb proves at the end that he too is a vulnerable person, but by then you get the drift where the movie is going,and it's just as well that the screen lights up with the end.