What a Way to Go!
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine Director: J. Lee Thompson Brand: MACLAINE,SHIRLEY Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy Editor: Marjorie Fowler Editor: Pat Shade Producer: Arthur P. Jacobs Writer: Adolph Green Writer: Betty Comden Writer: Gwen Davis DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; French (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 111 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-01-11 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: 20th Century Fox |
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Movie Reviews of What a Way to Go!
Movie Review: Portrait of Shirley
Summary: 3 Stars
Watching this movie, with Dick Van Dyke as a work a holic who can't stop futzing for even a minute, you wonder why he accepted the part. Shirley does her best to sex him up, but it doesn't take for very long, soon as sugar he's out the door with just a kiss on her forehead. He's down at the office dictating to his fourteen secretaries, leaving them all limp and too exhausted to type. His name is Edgar Hopper, and that describes his character well. For Edgar Hopper, no success is ever enough, and no gratification means anything so long as there are more profits to be made from the bargain shopper.
J Lee Thompson, who made the marvelous ICE COLD IN ALEX and WOMAN IN A DRESSING GOWN in England in the 1950s, got stuck with this overstuffed black comedy. His direction of Robert Mitchum was grand in CAPE FEAR--here, he twirls Mitchum around like a puppet doll, giving him some sexy scenes with Shirley, but then again, Mitchum and MacLaine were having an affair behind their spouses' backs, it wasn't hard to make them look like they had chemistry. I wound up feeling that Robert Cummings, who plays Shirley's psychiatrist, Dr Stefanson, was a terribly underrated actor. Didn't he play the same part in his next movie, the Warren Beatty Leslie Caron dud PROMISE HER ANYTHING?
Gene Kelly is in love with himself in this movie, just like in real life. It's a cute comedy, but its stars have seen better parts elsewhere. No one comes off very good except for Paul Newman, who plays the Jackson Pollock part. People who didn't like abstract expressionism must have been laughing their asses off when this picture came out.