Daydreaming has gotten a bad rap. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" shows that it can actually be quite good. Walter Mitty (Danny Kaye) is an everyman who works at a magazine drawing cartoons for them. But privately, he imagines himself as various characters: a riverboat gambler, a surgeon, a gunslinger, etc. Nothing interesting ever happens in Walter's real life until he meets Rosalind van Hoorn (Virginia Mayo). After he meets her, his life takes the most unexpected turn. This movie is a classic masterpiece in the real sense of the term. Maybe some people might say that the movie is basically an excuse to be "cute", but I thought that it was more than that (I mean, how can you say that a movie is "cute" when it co-stars Boris Karloff?). Marvellous.
Review of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
