Listless little comedy which drags on and on for an hour and a half.Lana Turner,one of the queens of melodrama -"The bad and the beautiful","Madame X","Peyton Place",the sublime "imitation of life"- or film noir ("the postman always rings twice") has not the great comical presence the part asks for.Walter Matthau steals the show:ahead of his time,his character uses a big computer;although a dirty man,he lectures his subordinate about his poor old mother,whom he must support even at his own expense.
A distant relative of "the sting" .People who are allergic to bets,bookies and stuff like that ,take to your heels.
A distant relative of "the sting" .People who are allergic to bets,bookies and stuff like that ,take to your heels.