Friday, April 8, 2011

Holiday for Lovers (1959)


Twentieth Century-Fox
Directed by Henry Koster
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)

Limp account of a psychologist who allows his grown daughter to travel alone to South America, but then has to pursue her when she falls in love and decides to stay. He totes along his wife and teenage daughter for the trip to Brazil and Peru. The cast is never actually in South America, made obvious by overuse of poor back projection. The film often digresses into tours of Sao Paulo, Rio and Lima, or extended dance and song routines of natives. Both daughters in the film fall in love at first sight and then argue with their parents about getting married. It's trite, irritating and badly dated fluff.

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