Michael Cacoyannis' follow-up to his celebrated "Zorba The Greek" did not exactly meet with the same critical or commercial success, and it's easy to see why. Its one-joke promise grows tiresome quickly, and doesn't come to its point until literally the last 5 minutes. For the first hour, the chief interest of the movie is watching Colin Blakely run around on a Greek island in his underwear; I had no idea he was so buff and muscular. At the 1 hour 5 minute mark, a gorgeous Candice Bergen pops up and provides some spark - only to disappear unceremoniously soon afterwards. I don't know where Leonard Maltin got the "whips, chains and leather" he mentions in his review - he probably dreamt them, and I WISH they were true! *1/2 out of 4.
Review of The Day the Fish Came Out
