This and others will feel this too, not just me, that this colorful entry, doesn't rise up to the rest of Alda's works. If you're involved in any facet of the film industry, even a budding new screenwriter, you'll identify with this film. What SL manages to do, is be so darn bloody entertaining, in a good way, with a lot of good performances by many, none more than the late Gish, while I really liked Caine in this as a narcissistic, womanizing lead and hopeless leadr, and again, one who likes to drink, while Alda is just Alda, again. He plays a English lit teacher, who's just written a book on the American Revolution, which is gonna be transpired to a decent sort film, he can be proud of, via a script, but that's where the trouble first starts, in the name of loud zesty scriptwriter, Hoskins who's instead written, like a sex farce. This really gets Alda irked, but Hoskins becomes an ally and the two try to see they can slowly adjust it, to what he wants, under the uncaring and greedy eyes of the film's director (the ever reliable, Rubinek, typecast). Alda has a beautiful girlfriend, and of course, he falls for actress in the story, Pfeiffer, who pretty much resembles, I gather what she would be in real life, regarding the serious craft of the acting world. Gish just steals every scene, obsessing over an old flame, he implores Alda to track down, but of course, he has other worries. I'll never get the opening theme out of my head. Again, if involved in any facet of the film industry, you'll find this film a blast. One scene, at it's end, even has an actor engaged in a perpetual kiss, fare welling an extra. This film is never dull, and manages to be colorfully entertaining all through. Actually writing this review, has me wanting to videe it again. Though it's not without flaws, and doesn't fully rise, to the standard
anticipated, what could of been, SL not the less, just boils down to such a enjoyably entertaining sit down movie, which kind of disappointingly, shares the same song to Outrageous Fortune, the following year. The film shows, what can be achieved, about righting your disapproval, and the fruits of liberty, when you reclaim your realization. Even Rubinek, whose character is such an ass of a director, tells Alda after he's tampered with it, "I'll just cut those scenes out later on". What was really inspiring was when the extras, rallied with Alda, to right one part.
Review of Sweet Liberty
