The Notorious Landlady (1962)
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Production Credits:
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Richard Quine - Director
Fred Kohlmar - Producer
Blake Edwards - Screenwriter
Larry Gelbart - Screenwriter
Arthur E. Arling - Cinematographer
Arthur W. Arling - Cinematographer
George Duning - Composer (Music Score)
George Gershwin - Featured Music
Ira Gershwin - Songwriter
William S. Gilbert - Songwriter
Cast:
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Kim Novak - Carlyle Hardwicke
Jack Lemmon - William Gridley
Fred Astaire - Franklyn Ambruster
Lionel Jeffries - Inspector Oliphant
Estelle Winwood - Mrs. Dunhill
Maxwell Reed - Miles Hardwicke
Philippa Bevans - Mrs. Brown
Henry Daniell - Stranger
Ronald Long - Coroner
Doris Lloyd - Lady Fallott
Dick Crockett - Carstairs
Scott Davey - Henry
Jack Livesey - Counsel
Cecil Weston - Woman
IMDB
Production Credits:
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Richard Quine - Director
Fred Kohlmar - Producer
Blake Edwards - Screenwriter
Larry Gelbart - Screenwriter
Arthur E. Arling - Cinematographer
Arthur W. Arling - Cinematographer
George Duning - Composer (Music Score)
George Gershwin - Featured Music
Ira Gershwin - Songwriter
William S. Gilbert - Songwriter
Cast:
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Kim Novak - Carlyle Hardwicke
Jack Lemmon - William Gridley
Fred Astaire - Franklyn Ambruster
Lionel Jeffries - Inspector Oliphant
Estelle Winwood - Mrs. Dunhill
Maxwell Reed - Miles Hardwicke
Philippa Bevans - Mrs. Brown
Henry Daniell - Stranger
Ronald Long - Coroner
Doris Lloyd - Lady Fallott
Dick Crockett - Carstairs
Scott Davey - Henry
Jack Livesey - Counsel
Cecil Weston - Woman
Eleanor Mannikka escribió:This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) inadvertently gets caught up in a jewel theft and mayhem. After William lands in London to take up his new position and get settled in his new digs, he becomes involved with his gorgeous landlady Carlye Hardwicke (Kim Novak). Carlye's husband is missing, and she is suspected of doing him in. But then he unexpectedly comes back home where an argument with Carlye over some jewels makes him as dead as everyone had assumed -- with her wielding the murder weapon. Carlye is eventually acquitted thanks to a witness who has designs on the jewels herself -- but the story is far from over. First there is an exciting helicopter ride and a wild chase to decide just who will end up with the loot.
July 27, 1962
Screen: Adroit Comedy
Jack Lemmon Stars in 'Notorious Landlady'
By BOSLEY CROWTHER
Published: July 27, 1962
CREDIT a clever little story by Britain's nutmeggy Margery Sharp and a comic performance by Jack Lemmon that twinkles like a mischief-maker's eyes for the unexpected good-humor that generally crackles and pops in Columbia's "The Notorious Landlady," which came to the Criterion and the Beekman yesterday.
The pleasant surprise of the discovery is occasioned by the fact that the title role is played by Kim Novak, and that simply does not augur well. Miss Novak is one of those performers who have cast so many drab and saggy palls over good motion pictures that one shudders to see her name in a cast.
And she doesn't do much to help this picture, when all is said and done, except establish the pivotal character and, oh, yes, design her own clothes. She's a mysterious American woman, strongly suspected of having murdered her spouse, who rents a floor of her house in London to an unsuspecting young man from the American embassy. And although she appears quite often and importantly throughout the film, she simply does not give the role the comic menace nor the romantic piquancy it should have.
In short, Miss Novak is a flat tire. But Mr. Lemmon as the embassy chap makes up in solid measure for her lack of inflation and bounce. And, fortunately, he is permitted to carry the major middle scenes with Fred Astaire as his chief at the embassy and Lionel Jeffries as a bloke from Scotland Yard.
From the moment Mr. Lemmon pokes the doorbell of Miss Novak's London house and starts sparking brightly on the instant she guardedly answers it, he is full of delightful little gurgles, witty sayings, appreciative looks and all the amusing indications of a healthy fellow falling—well, in love. He quips with his new landlady boldly, inveigles her out to dine and proceeds on the blissful assumption that he is off on a nice inside track.
Then, when he gets the information from his chief (and from Scotland Yard) that he is lodged with a murder suspect, a female Bluebeard in modern dress (designed, as we said, by Miss Novak) and that he is expected to help shadow her, Mr. Lemmon swings into that aroused state that only he so superbly commands. He sputters, he paces wildly, he talks himself into verbal knots and he encounters the uncertain lady in the most comical condition of wariness.
Fortunately, the script by Larry Gelbart and Blake Edwards, based on the short story, "The Notorious Tenant," by Miss Sharp, is most adroit in this section, and it is really here that the film has its most ingenious situations and turns. As it moves along and Miss Novak is brought more and more into play—indeed, is made the dominant figure in one long and spotty courtroom scene—there is a perceptible feeling of the lack of Mr. Lemmon's aid. Slowly the film becomes less funny—until it hits a mad chase sequence for the end.
However, it's well worth the viewing of anybody who wants a nice breezy comedy concocted with a little standard mystery and suspense. Mr. Astaire is suave, Mr. Jeffries is droll in an arch British way and Estelle Winwood, Philippa Bevans and Henry Daniell are intriguing in lesser roles. Richard Quine's direction has a pungent fog-flavored quality. If Miss Novak were something of an actress, it might be an almost "Hitchcock film."
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