Title: Great songs in a tepid film.....
Product review: Time was, we could find womanizers funny. But no longer. Frank Sinatra is a bit of a cad here, as he toys with the affections of 2 lovely women--Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak. The movie starts, in fact, as Frank ("Pal Joey") is being run out of town by the police, for trifling with the affections of an underage girl. Settled in San Francisco, Frank uses Rita to finance his new supper club, but cannot give up his star act, Kim Novak. All very shallow, and a rather nice (sweetened up) ending.Not to deny the power of the songs--Rodgers and Hart at their best.Not to deny the beauty of the Cinematography--glorious limpid shots of 50's San Francisco.But that plot!
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