Jul 27 2010
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Boy, the reviewers here are graceful harsh on this movie. Calling it dated is like calling Snow White or Cinderella unrealistic. It’s a frothy comical well-written & well-acted film with one of Sinatra’s most involving performances & some stout relieve from Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne & Celeste Holm. Plus one hilarious set-piece scene about a hung-over morning after.
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Directed by the mostly unsung Charles Walters who started off as a shapely dancer & gigantic choreographer. Well-worth watching.
By the map, Robert Preston starred in the fresh Broadway version the year before.
*The Tender Trap* has got to be one of the most scathing indictments of Fifties life ever place to hide. The screenwriters practically beat us over the head with their disgust of the reigning conformities. It’s legal in the title, after all: “Trap”.
I’m stunned that, today, this movie will be misunderstood. People will recognize it as another unimaginative Sinatra Swinging-Guy movie with a hep runt tune thrown in. You gotta read between the lines with this one: think the Debbie Reynolds character. She says things like “A woman impartial isn’t FULFILLED until she’s married and has children, dontcha judge? ” Her character has a promising career as a stage singer, but will throw it away toot-sweet unprejudiced as soon as she can net herself a husband. In fact, her single-minded, frenzied ambition for landing a hubby should send up the red flags for you. The screenwriters, in their fill frenzy of sarcasm, have created a homely figure in the chillingly perky frame of Miss Reynolds. Jeepers, she even goes to some sort of Homemakers Convention, sizing up the appliances and furniture, husband-hunting in the weirdest blueprint I’ve ever seen in a movie — she has several men sit in a easy chair, trying to discern WHICH man best “fits in” with the furniture she’s fond of. Uh, the message is ravishing loud and distinct!
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Sinatra’s buddy from Indianapolis, the not-coincidentally named Joe (the typical American Shmo, 50’s style), loves his wife of eleven years so great that he decides to shack up with Sinatra’s Charlie for TWO WEEKS, to do . . . what? Figure it out. This Joe guy, played by David Wayne, is the probably the key to the whole report, and is certainly contrasted with marriage-and-babies-crazy Debbie Reynolds. We eye the results of a ample Fifties marriage: Joe hides out, drinking and smoking like a maniac in his swinger-friend’s sleazy apartment, whining about his wife’s fancy of wall-to-wall carpeting and the cost of the kids’ braces. He begins dating one of the swinger’s girlfriends, Sylvia (brilliantly played by Celeste Holm) . This Family Man proposes to Sylvia reach the slay of the record (she talks him out of it) . The hypocrite will return home to his wife in Indianapolis, who will never know how finish her husband came to abandoning her. Getting the conception? Sylvia’s another key character: in a startling monologue directed at Joe, she talks about how a woman is washed up by the age of 33. There are no available men left (thanks to the emasculating Reynolds types who circle guys like a pride of sharks), and those who are available are nutcases working on their fifth divorce, 19-year-olds looking for Mamas, etc. It’s yet another depressing, scathing, indictment of what was going on culturally.
Another colossal scene is when Sinatra and Reynolds are alone at her parents’ apartment. They turn on TV, and gape a bathing couple perform out. Panting, Ms. Reynolds switches off the status and opens what she hopes will be a insensible art book, which turns out to gain sexy Raphaelite prints. She slams the book closed, only to examine a married couple produce out from the apartment across the plot. Excited, Sinatra puts the obtain on her, and she tells him that the other couple have the “fair” to do that, because of their location of grace as a married couple. Predictably, the scene ends in a enormous fight, which is the only contrivance these horribly repressed people can release all their pent-up hormones.
Invaluable as a recognize of 1950’s attitudes toward sex and marriage, *The Tender Trap* will surprise you. It was the Righteous Archaic Days . . . and clear moviemakers were none too jubilant about it. Piquant.
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