I love mid-50s films - they illustrate what Hollywood was like after the Golden Age and prior to the New Age of cinema. Pictures like this, MARTY, THE ROSE TATTOO, COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA - all stories that are personal with scripts that the viewer can get into. Most are around 85-100 minutes (this is 95) and most are in glorious Black and White. Chayefsky tells us the story of 5 men who work in the same office and have a night on the town to celebrate one of them getting married. Without going thru spoilers, the men relate to the viewers, their status or ilk in life and how they are coping with it. Along the way Carolyn Jones flashes thru the story. I'm not crazy about her performance - it was competent and she did a good job. Not sure it was all that Oscar worthy (I think Elsa Lanchester in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION was a more admirable performance). It's worth a view but remember this is a little film - not a big budget epic.
Review of The Bachelor Party
