No one today is likely to mistake this smarmy little sex farce for a good film, but it is significant historically as one of the nails in the coffin of Hollywood's self-imposed Production Code. Otto Preminger, an Austrian bull running amuck in the china shop of Hollywood censorship, refused
to take the words "virgin", "pregnant", "mistress," and "seduction" out of his script, based on a popular Broadway farce. The film was released without the MPAA seal of approval, and was a solid box office success. The rest, as they say, is history.
The story--which hinges on whether a thirty-something architect (William Holden) or a forty-something roue (David Niven) will g...
Released:
1953
Rated:
NR
Length:
99 mins