The only thing wrong with this movie is that the characters are unbelievable.
McQueen is hampered by the fact that he IS Steve McQueen. You just can't see Josh Randall as a second rate musician. Natalie Wood is stymied because she is cast as a good Catholic girl who apparently had no trouble sleeping with a guy on an overnight stand.
I'm a huge Steve McQueen fan so I hate to criticize him. But he still does a lot of his goofy overacting in this film; the wild eyed facial expressions and use of his hands as if they were ping-pong paddles. The simple fact is McQueen could never do comedy. And even when he made a dramatic movie, any comedic relief scenes he did were always inept. The one exception is his role as Ringa in Never So Few. The initial comic scenes of him fighting with MPs were really action scenes (which he always did well) meant to have a comedic result. And he came pretty close to blowing those scenes as well.
McQueen and Wood are square pegs in round holes in this flick. But every woman I know that saw this film loved it...?
McQueen is hampered by the fact that he IS Steve McQueen. You just can't see Josh Randall as a second rate musician. Natalie Wood is stymied because she is cast as a good Catholic girl who apparently had no trouble sleeping with a guy on an overnight stand.
I'm a huge Steve McQueen fan so I hate to criticize him. But he still does a lot of his goofy overacting in this film; the wild eyed facial expressions and use of his hands as if they were ping-pong paddles. The simple fact is McQueen could never do comedy. And even when he made a dramatic movie, any comedic relief scenes he did were always inept. The one exception is his role as Ringa in Never So Few. The initial comic scenes of him fighting with MPs were really action scenes (which he always did well) meant to have a comedic result. And he came pretty close to blowing those scenes as well.
McQueen and Wood are square pegs in round holes in this flick. But every woman I know that saw this film loved it...?