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Wild and Wonderful
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Wikipedia article
'Wild and Wonderful' is a 1964 comedy film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Tony Curtis and Christine Kaufmann. The screenplay concerns a clever French poodle named Monsieur Cognac, and the dog's effect on the newly married couple portrayed by Curtis and Kaufmann.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6xpQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7VYDAAAAIBAJ&dq=wild-and-wonderful%20tony-curtis&pg=4791%2C685322 "'Wild and Wonderful' is Wild and Wacky Fun"], 'Boxoffice reprinted in 'Evening Independent', June 4, 1964. The film was Curtis's last under his long contractual relationship with Universal Studios.[http://tonycurtis.com/Biography.html Biography] at tonycurtis.com official website.
Plot
Cast
* Tony Curtis as Terry Williams
* Christine Kaufmann as Giselle Ponchon
* Larry Storch as Rufus Gibbs
* Pierre Olaf as Jacquot
* Marty Ingels as Doc Bailey
* Jacques Aubuchon as Papa Ponchon
* Sarah Marshall as Pamela
* Marcel Dalio as Dr. Reynard
* Jules Munshin as Rousseleau
* Marcel Hillaire as Inspector Duviver
* Cliff Osmond as Hercule
* Fifi D'Orsay as Simone
* Vito Scotti as Andre
* Steven Geray as Bartender
* Stanley Adams as Mayor of Man La Loquet
Reception
The film had six credited writers, including Waldo Salt, who was then still working his way back from years on the Hollywood blacklist and who reportedly "hated" the film. In his 1999 obituary for Larry Markes, another of the credited writers, Dick Vosburgh of 'The Independent' commented, "Critics found it hard to accept that it had taken six writers to fashion the wafer-thin tale of a jazz flautist whose marriage to a French film star is threatened by the jealous tricks of Monsieur Cognac, her neurotic, alcoholic French poodle." . In his obituary for Tony Curtis in 2010, film critic Dave Kehr dismissed the film as "disastrous," noting that Curtis was rebuilding his reputation after an earlier affair with Kaufmann, his co-star in 'Wild and Wonderful', and subsequent divorce from Janet Leigh.
See also
*List of American films of 1964
References
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