Saturday, May 5, 2012

Let's Do It Again (1953)

Columbia Pictures
Directed by Alexander Hall
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Sony Screen Classics by Request)

Jane Wyman and Ray Milland are a bickering "modern" couple considering divorce. Ray lies about his business trips while partying all night with an exotic dancer. Jane gets even by staying out all night with a playboy then lying about a hotel tryst. Their juvenile antics are tiring and the constant sexual innuendo dumb. Ray is not credible as a hep jazz cat, his drum scene is embarrassing and his use of jazz lingo just as implausible. There is a campy nightclub scene featuring dancing African natives. Jane dances to the same song later on while party goers urge her on with chants of "go girl go!". Oh my.

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