Awfully tired sex farce--made before sex farces actually got sexy--involving a New York lawyer and his inability to swing into the single life after divorcing his TV-writer wife. Written by the usually-reliable George Axelrod, film is beset with hammy humor and a lengthy flashback sequence foisted upon us in the first 12 minutes! Jack Lemmon (in only his second movie, both of which had him co-starring alongside Judy Holliday) is still rather green here, and he has trouble walking that fine line between tragedy and comedy. Holliday is forced, as is Jack Carson playing a wolf. Kim Novak, on the other hand, is perfect doing a Marilyn Monroe impersonation, brightening an otherwise stale bedroom opus. ** from ****
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