Receding youth, looming age and caught in the squeeze is Barney Cashman, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, a man most husbands will recognize.
You know the guy... married more thane 20 years but with a roving eye for a pretty pair of legs...the reluctanyt and somewhat innocuous lecher.
On Broadway, James Coco became a star as Barney, but true to Hollywood form he wasn't stabbed for the movie role --that went to Alan Arkin. Coco was more than comphensated by being signed to play Sancho Panza to Peter O'Tooles "Man of La Mancha".
Alan Arkin scores as the movie Barney, bumbling his way through sexual games with three willing women. His special comedic talents are perfectly mated to ythe part; the 40ish Lothario dreaming of "just one more time" out of wedlock.
Sally Kellerman, Paula Prentice and Rene Taylor give adiquate support in the "Quarry Quandary" though they night have been more believable had they been less attractive, but the other players give solid performances.
Barney may be a failure, but the movie succeeds happily.
Review of Last of the Red Hot Lovers
