This movie changed my life!
I know this sounds like a melodramatic exaggeration, but it's true. The scene in which Harry is asked to name his favorite restaurant had happened to me in similar circumstances not six months before this movie was released in the theaters. I knew exactly how he felt. I am sure many of watching this movie might be able to relate to this. I determined, like Harry, to do something about it so that I wouldn't be embarrassed like that again. I couldn't afford to become an expert on "Chateau LaTour 1932", so I decided to become an expert on French onion soup. Sounds silly, and it was, but I was a young salesman and traveling all over the U.S., Canada, Mexico and parts of Europe. It wasn't too hard to collect names of restaurants from far flung places that had superior French onion soup. And I am amazed to this day how handy this pedantic info has come in at fancy-shmancy parties!
Other than this personal note, I still find the movie as fresh today as when I originally saw it. I have had the pleasure of introducing it to hundreds of new viewers over the years. Almost without exception it is adored by young and old alike.
There are all sorts of technical inaccuracies if you want to be picky. But this film is what movies were intended to be ... pure entertainment! I give it my highest recommendation.
I know this sounds like a melodramatic exaggeration, but it's true. The scene in which Harry is asked to name his favorite restaurant had happened to me in similar circumstances not six months before this movie was released in the theaters. I knew exactly how he felt. I am sure many of watching this movie might be able to relate to this. I determined, like Harry, to do something about it so that I wouldn't be embarrassed like that again. I couldn't afford to become an expert on "Chateau LaTour 1932", so I decided to become an expert on French onion soup. Sounds silly, and it was, but I was a young salesman and traveling all over the U.S., Canada, Mexico and parts of Europe. It wasn't too hard to collect names of restaurants from far flung places that had superior French onion soup. And I am amazed to this day how handy this pedantic info has come in at fancy-shmancy parties!
Other than this personal note, I still find the movie as fresh today as when I originally saw it. I have had the pleasure of introducing it to hundreds of new viewers over the years. Almost without exception it is adored by young and old alike.
There are all sorts of technical inaccuracies if you want to be picky. But this film is what movies were intended to be ... pure entertainment! I give it my highest recommendation.