Monday, May 13, 2013

The Rat Race (1960)

Second viewing; first was on June 2, 1990.

A saxophone player from Milwaukee comes to New York City to live and work there. He ends up sharing an apartment with a taxi-dancer.

(1) I hugely overrated this on my first viewing.
(2) Although I do not know the play, the film has every characteristic of a hugely bowdlerized text.
(3) It is still not a bad film, if you just relax and enjoy it (what am I saying?). Anyway I confess to having a crush on Debbie.
(4) This is not much of a review. Would it fix it if I said that the screenplay is only so-so, but it is so well directed one kind of gets carried away?
(5) What's with the sentence numbering?

Rating: 57 (down from 87)

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