G | 2h 16min | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 24 June 1970 | Color, ws
Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp.
Hermes Pan ... choreographer and staging
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065611/
5 musical numbers; Whistling Away the Dark opened and closed the film, so maybe that's 6. 3 more songs were sung in part during an early scene.
It's nice to have more JA in my collection, but this is not a fun or good movie. Not enough singing, for sure.
It's not at all clear why JA is spying for the Germans. Her last name is Smith, and her German contact JK refers to her as Schmidt. Did she refer to him as uncle? Is he related to her?
We never see RH give JA any military secrets, nor do we see JA pass any along to JK. We only see them discussing Crepe Suzette, supposedly the name of a secret operation. Yet the French army intelligence come to question JA about RH, because they suspect he's passed some military secrets to the Germans. So that means she did get some intelligence from him. (One of the police also was the cop in Charade ('63).
For us, this amounts to a comedy about a spy JA who falls in love with her source RH, who loves her boss JK, and gets jealous about Suzette, blows her cover, and somehow ends up in the clear. (I tried watching the last few scenes twice to find out how she is not in prison, but didn't get it.)
The "deleted scenes" are confusing, since most of the footage is in the film.
distr. Paramount, dir. Edwards; 6
