13 Replies to “Comedy Romance Movie ~ Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis 1958 Full Movie”

  3. When I look at Tony here, I cannot fathom the way he looked as an old man: like a fat old drag queen. Ageing is particularly hard on the good-looking!

  8. At the 37 minute mark, he starts going down the rope with Janet Leigh watching. When the cork explodes, you can actually see her move that she's laughing at the result.

  12. A funny movie, as only Blake Edwards, director, could create. lol His special touches were the types of humor that he used in all of the "Pink Panther" movies he made. Scenes that made me roll .my eyes, like when I hear a good pun.

    The pace of this film also became the norm for the "Panther" movies. Slow, almost normal beginning, continually becoming more complex and crazy, just shy of unbelievable.

    The ending was like an afterthought. While all of the "strings" were neatly incorporated, I still felt like something was missing. Maybe a return to a slower pace so that, after the wacky section where the topics of uncertain paternity and moral premarital "violations" were dealt with at a frenetic pace so that the audience didn't have time to dwell on/think about any of it, which focused on taboo concepts of the sexually rigid and unliberated 1950's, were skimmed over, insuring the story line remained light-hearted. I guess I wasn't completely able to ignore the societal changes that were just around the corner.

    And, Janet Leigh's risque pre-"Psycho" bathtub scene was, aside from Tony Curtis' startlingly blue bedroom eyes, lol, was the best part of the whole movie! Again, because one of the best and most famous scenes from a movie, "Psycho's shower scene," had yet to be created by the infamous, Alfred Hitchcock, in his masterpiece, "The Birds."

    Thank you, Blake Edwards, for breaking some of the taboos, and blazing a never-ending trail of comedies, where audiences could laugh, not only at the movie, also themselves!

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