The major recommendation on this movie is the fact that Kim Novak to me was never more beautiful than the Star was in this movie. Gorgeous. When the camera is on Kim the movie stops and one is dazzled. Kim Novak and Columbia Pictures had a magical combination: Columbia groomed Kim Novak and Kim Novak became the Number 1 female star in Hollywood with his films such as Picnic, Pal Joey, Bell Book and Candle, especially the heartbreaking Strangers When We Meet and on loan to RKO for The Man With The Golden Arm, and to Paramount for Novak's most famous film Vertigo. Joe McDonald photographs the great star well, but then Kim Novak and the Camera had a love affair. George Sidney who worked with Kim before in Pal Joey was a long time Kim Novak admirer and while many list Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder as principal Kim Novak directors, Kim herself might also add George Sidney as well to the list -----as Delbert Mann, Josh Logan, and her former lover Richard Quine.
Pepe was a concoction developed by Columbia to basically plume the Latin American market and Mexico in particular with an All star fun filled film starring Cantinflas with cameos by the great stars such as beautiful Greer Garson, and Columbia stars such as Jack Lemmon and Kim Novak and up and coming Columbia contract stars such as Michael Callan and Vicki Trickett. One complaint is the minimal use of Judy Garland who was magic in front of the camera and of course sang like no one ever before or since.
Pepe was a concoction developed by Columbia to basically plume the Latin American market and Mexico in particular with an All star fun filled film starring Cantinflas with cameos by the great stars such as beautiful Greer Garson, and Columbia stars such as Jack Lemmon and Kim Novak and up and coming Columbia contract stars such as Michael Callan and Vicki Trickett. One complaint is the minimal use of Judy Garland who was magic in front of the camera and of course sang like no one ever before or since.