PI mystery with Frank Sinatra. Sounds like
a bad joke, but it’s - surprisingly - quite okay and definitely above average.
I’m pretty sure it was adopted from Marvin H. Albert’s book especially for
Sinatra and he created his character more like Lew Archer type than Phillip
Marlowe which is okay. Or let’s say bearable.
Story involves lots of characters and gets
really complicated, so ending doesn’t even need some big twist. For me it was
rewarding enough that it ended and made sense. More or less…
I was a bit disappointed with performance
of Gena Rowlands. She doesn’t seem to put any real effort into it and I would
like to think she did just for the money to help her husband create one of his
masterpieces Faces the following
year. But on the other hand Jill St. John is charming (Slut... That's just a nickname. Only my dearest friends use it.) and
total revelation to me. She does ring a bell but I honestly don’t really
remember her from any movie. But in those few scenes she has she really steals
this one from Frankie boy.
6/10
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