Sunday, August 16, 2009
GIRRRLS
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was George Roy Hill's
with Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Tom Bosley, Bibi Osterwald and Al Lewis.
This was billed as a Peter Seller's film but he is neither the star nor the focus of the story.
He is the target of a stalking operation by two Haley Mills type girls, Mary Spaeth and Tippy Walker, who never made but a few other films and teevee shows before sliding into obscurity.
The story is pretty good though as the girls concoct a romantic fiction about this piano artist Henry Orient. Idealizing him, they do not know that he is a sleaze ball and low life. A fake. A pianist born in Brooklyn trying to hold a career together while Don Juaning his way around New York. Improbable you would say. I would say too.
The film is amusing and at its best when the girls are stalking.
Otherwise it is an overblown situation comedy not worth the time or trouble.
Peter Sellers fans (which I am not very much) will be disappointed in the few scenes that he has and the schtick that he uses for over the top laughs. Not all that funny.
I watched it all but I didn't like it too much. I will give it a 2 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films
