This Happy Feeling

directed by Blake Edwards
Category: "Comedy"
Year of Release:1958
Date Added:05/15/2024
Date Watched:05/15/2024
Description:Janet Blake (Debbie Reynolds) flees from a Long Island party when her boss makes advances on her. She grabs a ride with Bill (John Saxon), a local, and when she thinks he's also trying to seduce her, she flees in the rain and ends up on the doorstep of Preston Mitchell (Curt Jurgens), a retired actor turned horse trainer. Preston takes a liking to Janet and hires her as his secretary. Bill, who lives next door, explains his behavior, and he and Janet hang out some. But Janet develops feelings for Preston, and he for her. But in the end, he realizes their lives are too different, and Janet ends up with Bill
My Rating:5

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Review - This Happy Feeling

Only a five, because of Preston's housekeeper (played by Estelle Winwood), an eccentric, usually drunk whom who tries to shoot a chicken and ends up winging a seagull which adopts her and follows her around the rest of the movie. That part is funny. The rest of it is dull. Debbie Reynolds acts as if she's irresistible, but mostly she comes off as a ditz. Jurgens is just dull—he's a much better villain than a lover. And John Saxon's character just comes across as immature and whiney.
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