Don't Just Stand There

Robert Wagner spots Mary Tyler Moore's legs at the airport. He decides he might as well smuggle those watch parts into Paris. This leads him into a complicated plot involving having Barbara Rhoades write Glynis Johns' newest smutty book; Miss Johns has just discovered sex and is yachting in Greece with her lover. However, Miss Rhoades was a witness to a gangland killing and is marked for the next one, if only she hadn't been kidnapped because she was mistaken for Miss Moore.

By the end of this farce, everything will be sorted out, we can be certain. In the meantime, Wagner and Miss Moore must think up a constant barrage of misdirection and persiflage carried out at speed, so that audience is wondering what is going on., as Harvey Korman, business manager for seemingly everyone, has almost nothing to do in a comic way. Charles Williams adapted his novel The Wrong Venus for the screen and did a superb job.