This movie is a silly melodrama and I loved every self-spoofing minute of it. Not since "Die, Mommie, Die!" have I had this much fun. In fact, I would like to see a remake of this movie with Charles Busch in the Gloria Grahame role.
The fight over who will choose the new draperies for the sanitarium is wonderful. At first, I thought there must be something else to the plot of this movie. I was absolutely delighted to discover that there isn't! Lives, a marriage, a man's professional reputation, and people's sanity all hang in the balance as the fight rages on over who will design the new curtains.
I think the curtain fight is meant as a device to demonstrate how exorcised a group of people can get over something completely trivial when their lives are otherwise so empty. It begins to make more sense when you substitute some of the faux issues of our own day for the curtain fight, like Jerry Falwell's bizarre assertion of yore that Teletubby Tinky Winky was gay. However, in the context of this movie, the central conflict is just funny.
It is hard to believe that the man who made "An American in Paris" made this movie -- which I plan to watch again, preferably with a group of fun friends.
The fight over who will choose the new draperies for the sanitarium is wonderful. At first, I thought there must be something else to the plot of this movie. I was absolutely delighted to discover that there isn't! Lives, a marriage, a man's professional reputation, and people's sanity all hang in the balance as the fight rages on over who will design the new curtains.
I think the curtain fight is meant as a device to demonstrate how exorcised a group of people can get over something completely trivial when their lives are otherwise so empty. It begins to make more sense when you substitute some of the faux issues of our own day for the curtain fight, like Jerry Falwell's bizarre assertion of yore that Teletubby Tinky Winky was gay. However, in the context of this movie, the central conflict is just funny.
It is hard to believe that the man who made "An American in Paris" made this movie -- which I plan to watch again, preferably with a group of fun friends.