The Out of Towners does have quite a few laughs, but Jack Lemmon is so shrill and angry the entire time that you wonder why his wife (Sandy Dennis) and everyone else around him doesn't slap him. He's on edge even before their flight is delayed by a few hours, they lose their luggage, hotel room, and money. It leaves Lemmon nowhere to go throughout the rest of the film and can only just get louder and more annoying.
Sandy Dennis doesn't fare much better as the slightly dim witted (and also impossibly loud) wife who takes everything at face value and tries to keep her husband together. The be stuck alone with these two for over 90 minutes sometimes feels like punishment.
With two more appropriate (or maybe better directed) actors, The Out of Towners might have been a lot more fun and less of a drag.
Sandy Dennis doesn't fare much better as the slightly dim witted (and also impossibly loud) wife who takes everything at face value and tries to keep her husband together. The be stuck alone with these two for over 90 minutes sometimes feels like punishment.
With two more appropriate (or maybe better directed) actors, The Out of Towners might have been a lot more fun and less of a drag.