Senteur
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Keira Brennan
The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
Michelle Ridley
The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
jlphotos14
Oct 10, 2014The moment Jane Russell appears with short dark hair in this movieI saw her as an actress who could marvelously play in any picture in the last 50 yearsJane Russell looks and acts as good as it gets.Just seeing her as a real girl with a contemporary hair cut is worth the price of admission.Jane Russell as a real woman will capture your heart.She is charming, adorable and so beautiful as a real woman.I love her so much after seeing her in this pictureJohn Longenecker / Academy Award Winner
MartinHafer
Adequate....this is the best way to describe this rather lackluster film. It sure could have been a lot better but comes off as just an ordinary sort of thing--something you can easily skip.The film begins with Jane Russell playing a self-absorbed mega-star--the type who does what she wants and gets what she wants. In many ways, she comes off like a higher-powered Jane Mansfield--and this performance seemed a bit overdone. Anyway, her new film is about to debut--a film in which she is kidnapped. But when she is kidnapped for real, folks all think it's just a lame publicity stunt and no one takes much notice. And, when the kidnappers (Ralph Meeker and Keenan Wynn) only demand a small payment for her return, Russell becomes indignant and actually tries to get them to up the amount they are demanding. It's all kind of kooky and a bit reminiscent of the much better film "Ruthless People" (1986).Although the plot does sound promising, it never comes off well--mostly because the direction and Russell come off very flat. With a better script and direction it COULD have been a much more interesting. Worth a look but don't expect much.
David (Handlinghandel)
Ralph Meeker looks great. He tended toward puffiness in the all too few movies he made after the great "Kiss Me Deadly." Here he is trim and does a good job (with little to work with.) Keenan Wynn is all right. He played sidekicks -- sort of the Tony Randall of the 1950s.Jane Russell wears the title outfit. She got a bad rap as an actress. She was hilarious in "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" and very convincing in her adventure/thrillers with Robert Mitchum.Here she is OK. Her acting is OK, that is. But she's supposed to be a movie star at her peak and this is a little hard to buy. I remember her TV ads in which she spoke of "us full-figured gals." These came a couple decades after "The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown." But the nightgown, and everything she wears, looks like a maternity frock. She looks big here. In the beginning of the film she wears a long blonde wig. It is monumentally unbecoming. She looks better when she takes it off.Still, the movie is a disappointment. It's always a treat to see Meeker. And the supporting cast comprises familiar faces and is amusing. But the movie is a misfire. Russell and Meeker have no particular chemistry. It isn't touching. And it isn't really very funny, director Taurog notwithstanding.
Basti H
A popular movie star is kidnapped,and everyone thinks,it's a publicity gag for her new picture "The Kidnapped Bride" - it isn't,but nobody cares,because everybody thinks it is! The diva falls in love with one of her kidnappers - that was clear from the beginning,of course,but that doesn't matter. A nice idea,transpositioned in a delightful,amusing comedy full of funny and also sarcastic gags and dialogues,with terrific actors(Jane Russell - who wears a blonde wig in the first part - is nearly as good as in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes",if not better)and a good story...it is a pity that this movie is almost forgotten today!I wouldn't say it's a masterpiece-but I liked it very much!
