That Touch of Mink (1962) Directed by Delbert Mann
Comedy / Romance
Film Review
Cary Grant and Doris Day make their one and only screen appearance
together in this exuberant romantic comedy, scripted with unflagging
humour by Stanley Shapiro. The sparkling dialogue adds zest to
the scintillating on-screen rapport of the two leads, whilst allowing
the supporting actors, Gig Young and Audrey Meadows, their moments of
glory. The feminists will cheer at Day's attempts to bring Grant
to heel, although more daring is the subplot in which a psychiatrist is
led to think Grant intends to marry his (male) underling...
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Film Synopsis
Cathy Timberlake is furious when, on the day she has to go for a job
interview, a passing Rolls-Royce splashes mud on her coat and
dress. She is so furious in fact that she insists on seeing the
man responsible for this thoughtless act. But when she sets eyes
on that man, Philip Shayne, she is tongue-tied, as he is exactly the
man she has been looking for all her life. What she doesn't know
is that Philip is an inveterate womaniser who has absolutely no
intention of getting married. Cathy soon realises this but
somehow she just can't turn down his offer to spend a romantic weekend
with him in Bermuda. Philip thinks he has won another easy
conquest. How wrong he is...
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.
American film comedy had its heyday in the 1920s and '30s, but it remains an important genre and has given American cinema some of its enduring classics.