Ein Ehebett zur Probe (1963)

Ein Ehebett zur Probe: Directed by David Swift. With Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams. A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.

“Iu0026#39;ve been catching up on a few of these early sixties semi-sex comedies, while in Covid essential isolation. Iu0026#39;m starting to fall in love with Carol Lynley though sadly, she died about a year ago. Jack Lemmon is always funny and interesting, Edie Adams is forever appealing and Paul Lynde, as the frustrated repressed wannabe letch is amusing to watch.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eYes, I was entertained throughout, yes it was relatively original and yes, I recommend it. However, it does go on for a bit too long without veering direction and thereu0026#39;s never a moment when you donu0026#39;t know where itu0026#39;s going to end up. It was, after all, 1963, when the Hays code was starting to be lifted but wasnu0026#39;t quite there yet. Young people in the country were preparing for the sexual revolution but they werenu0026#39;t quite there yet, either. By 1967, the year of Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate and the year after Whou0026#39;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the dynamic between this couple would have been entirely different. And by 1974, the film could have gone in a wide assortment of directions. In 1963, again at the time of the almost sex comedy, there was really only one way this film could go. Watching it get there was entertaining but again, it needed a few more turns and twists to justify the length.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNorman Fellu0026#39;s landlord character from The Graduate ended up as the landlord on Threeu0026#39;s Company. It might have been interesting to see this landlord replace him.”