- Comedy, Romance
- 125 min
- PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes75%Metacritic63IMDb6.9
It happened in Climax, Nevada
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
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Classical in form, comic, cool and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Dean MartinDino
- Kim NovakPolly the Pistol
- Ray WalstonOrville Jeremiah Spooner
- Felicia FarrZelda Spooner
- Cliff OsmondBarney Milsap
- Barbara PepperBig Bertha
- Skip WardMilkman
- Doro MerandeMrs. Pettibone
- Tom NolanJohnnie Mulligan
- Alice PearceMrs. Mulligan
Crew
- Billy WilderDirector
- Billy WilderScreenplay
- I. A. L. DiamondScreenplay
- Joseph LaShelleDirector of Photography
- André PrevinOriginal Music Composer
- Daniel MandellEditor
- Billy WilderProducer
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