The best thing about this 1964 is Henry Mancini's title song.
After giving brilliant performances in "Summer and Smoke," and "Sweet Bird of Youth," Geraldine Page portrays Evie Johnson, an outspoken postal worker from Ohio coming to a New York convention and finding love with salesman Glenn Ford who is engaged to Angela Lansbury, a widow with a very quirky son.
Ford passes himself off as already married man. Is Page believable as Evie, methinks not.
Alice Pearce is reduced to telling everyone to go to bed and Richard Deacon is denied the lines that made him in pictures-often standoffish and dictatorial. Even the usually funny Mary Wickes has little to do here.
The story in itself is difficult to believe. Evie is the Helen Trent of her times.
After giving brilliant performances in "Summer and Smoke," and "Sweet Bird of Youth," Geraldine Page portrays Evie Johnson, an outspoken postal worker from Ohio coming to a New York convention and finding love with salesman Glenn Ford who is engaged to Angela Lansbury, a widow with a very quirky son.
Ford passes himself off as already married man. Is Page believable as Evie, methinks not.
Alice Pearce is reduced to telling everyone to go to bed and Richard Deacon is denied the lines that made him in pictures-often standoffish and dictatorial. Even the usually funny Mary Wickes has little to do here.
The story in itself is difficult to believe. Evie is the Helen Trent of her times.