While I actually am a fan of that overstuffed 1973 musical remake, I can understand why it is still considered an auditory is flop. This unknown film of Peter Finch's (released somewhere in theaters although I never found it in my research of films looking at New York Times movie ads) stars Finch as a desperate man who, after dealing with shrewish wife Shelley Winters, must deal with a hitchhiker named Linda Hayden who completely turned his life upside down and enjoy total nightmare. This is an extremely unpleasant film in every way that really has no point, other than to remind us never to pick up teenage girl hitchhikers, especially pregnant ones.
It seems at first that Shelly's character is going to be established as some sort of former film actress as headshots and steals of her line the house where Finch and Winters live in England, but then it turns into a bad variation of "Virginia Woolf" at Christmas time. Hayden's character is reprehensible and she pales in comparison to Finch when they are on screen together. The film drags at many points, and I long for it to be over several times before the luck of that moment came along.
It seems at first that Shelly's character is going to be established as some sort of former film actress as headshots and steals of her line the house where Finch and Winters live in England, but then it turns into a bad variation of "Virginia Woolf" at Christmas time. Hayden's character is reprehensible and she pales in comparison to Finch when they are on screen together. The film drags at many points, and I long for it to be over several times before the luck of that moment came along.