A screwball comedy from 1961 starring Steve McQueen & Jim Hutton (Timothy's dad). Hutton plays a navy engineer who comes up a new algorithm program when he's approached by McQueen to use it on a roulette scheme he's setting up in Italy while he's on leave. When they start using a portable signalling device to send information from their warship to the hotel room they're staying at, the top brass, led by Dean Jagger, think it's an issue of espionage. To make matters more zany, Hutton runs into an old flame & McQueen meets Jagger's daughter as well. Feeling like a stage bound farce (as evidenced by the lack of sets used in the film), this film feels it should've been one or the other, the casino romp or the love affair between the 4 main parties but being this may've been a logical stepping stone in McQueen's ascendancy as the star of his time (& to some extent Hutton) makes sense but I wish a more focused screenplay would've been implemented. Look for Jack Weston as a drunk sailor (he would work w/McQueen again in the Thomas Crown Affair in 1968).
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