Review of Houseboat

Houseboat (1958)
7/10
Watch it for the two heroines
10 January 2020
Difficult to judge. Anything between 8 and 2. Plot is horrible, totally off the shelf. Not even convincing. Everything is a bad dream of a soap.

And then a (disfigured) Sophia Loren meets Cary Grant. And both drag the most lousy story out of the mud. A twenty-two-year-old falls in love with a fifty-year-old-lawyer? Never mind. Both Sophia Loren and Cary Grant know how to pull out of the mud, simply by popping up and start acting, however. Where both so much in need of money that they didn't dare beating the scriptwriters their script over the head?

Plus the maquillage of Sophia Loren. How can a single make-up dis-artist and hairdresser try to render a beautiful, beaming, woman into an average child minder of rather mediocre charme?

Though as I had stated: watch it for Cary Grant and Sophia Loren. Watch how two international artists and exceptional actors manage to turn around misery into giving their own roles distinction, and partly even depth?
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