TCall2004

Okay, some of it can get silly.

But this one is worth suspension of disbelief.

My question is:if the Sainted Frank was so much in love with Edith, why did he waste no time whatsoever jumping into bed with her twin sister, Maggie? (Maybe "having to marry" Maggie was his punishment for having cheated on Edie. It was a heavy price to pay.)

Frankly, had I been in Edie's place, when Maggie told me that she was pregnant and Frank "had" to marry her, I would have slapped her into the next week.

I did not blame the "good" sister one bit for recoiling from "Tony Collins", Peter Lawford's gigolo character. He came off as MEGA-sleazy.

Peter Lawford, at one time, was a very handsome man, but by the time they made this movie, his looks were all but gone and he looked bloated and was pretty much going through the motions. Sadly for him, he had another twenty years to live.

Jean Hagen's character DeDe Marshall is the type of woman I can't stand...rich, pampered, empty-headed.

Karl Malden gave his usual solid performance, and I love Estelle Winwood in any thing she's in. Estelle was Tallulah Bankhead's roommate and I wish she would've written a book about that experience. It would have been a best seller.

I liked the dog, Duke, but him killing someone? Great Danes are not attack dogs....and you could see in the closeup that the dog was a fake.

Nevertheless, I've always liked this movie and was so glad when I could get it on DVD.

And this comes from a lifelong feminist.

I saw this film on TV back in 1973, along with "That Funny Feeling". I have just bought both movies on DVD.

They're both cute movies made in the early 1960s. I take them for what they are. They're funny, sweet flicks that leave something to the imagination.

I liked Chantal's mother....yes, an attractive woman over 40. How often do you see that today in youth-obsessed Hollywood? Everyone dressed age-appropriately and not a pair of fake breasts to be seen!

Sandra looked lovely, as always.

There are too many things in this world these days to get bent out of shape about - this movie is not one of them.

First of all, Starkweather and Fugate were from Nebraska. So what's with the Southern hick accents and the country music?

Starkweather fancied himself another James Dean. I don't think he listened to country music.

What's with the "devil" character?? Added nothing to the plot. Im fact, the movie could have done very well without it.

Charlie loved animals - much better than he liked people; he wouldn't have killed the toad.

Charlie Starkweather was a very short, red-headed kid with bow-legs and thick glasses and a bad stutter. He also wasn't very bright.

Caril Ann Fugate was NOT the stunner she was portrayed as in the movies. By all accounts, she was a very snippy, arrogant child.

Both roles were miscast...badly.

If they're going to do a story on a mass murderer like Charles Starkweather, at least get it right.

"Badlands" was a much better account of the Starweather-Fugate crime spree than this mess.