While a handful of her early American films are well-known, it is nearly forgotten that Joan Collins was once a major starlet in British films. For those of us who have discovered films like "Coram Boy" and "Turn the Key Softly", she is much more than the big shoulder-padded Alexis Carrington Colby of "Dynasty". While far more than just a dark haired sophisticated beauty, her varied film work in the 1950's and early 60's stands the test of time beyond her cult films that turned her into a camp icon in the late 1970's.
Collins shares the laughs here with an amused cockatoo, the Greek chorus of one after Collins and three men (Kenneth More, Robertson Hare and George Cole) are stranded when the cruise ship they are on capsizes. This isn't the Titanic. It's a mixture of many class elements, and of course, Collins has nothing in common with the other men.
Hare is the stuffy professional type, getting quite daring (as well as a slap in the face) when he compares their situation to Adam and Eve. More and Cole are brutish working class types, one of whom has an issue with the bottle. It's up to Collins to take charge and claim "no hanky or panky" as she runs the island like a big piece of property.
This isn't earth shattering or even remotely challenging, but Collins is great: stunningly beautiful, funny, smart, uppity, vulnerable, self centered and caring. Hare reminds me of other rather obscure British comics and is very convincing being oh so stuffy. This has gorgeous photography but not much natural scenery of the island (at least in the greatly edited American print), but is a lot of fun.
Collins shares the laughs here with an amused cockatoo, the Greek chorus of one after Collins and three men (Kenneth More, Robertson Hare and George Cole) are stranded when the cruise ship they are on capsizes. This isn't the Titanic. It's a mixture of many class elements, and of course, Collins has nothing in common with the other men.
Hare is the stuffy professional type, getting quite daring (as well as a slap in the face) when he compares their situation to Adam and Eve. More and Cole are brutish working class types, one of whom has an issue with the bottle. It's up to Collins to take charge and claim "no hanky or panky" as she runs the island like a big piece of property.
This isn't earth shattering or even remotely challenging, but Collins is great: stunningly beautiful, funny, smart, uppity, vulnerable, self centered and caring. Hare reminds me of other rather obscure British comics and is very convincing being oh so stuffy. This has gorgeous photography but not much natural scenery of the island (at least in the greatly edited American print), but is a lot of fun.