There's nothing better for a good situation comedy than complications. And this lively film has plenty of those. Jack Lemmon plays an advertising executive who has to live with his wife's best friend, so that the friend can inherit a fortune. Have you followed the plot so far? Some of the comedy is an embarrassing misfire. But it gets funnier as it goes along, with Lemmon's expertise constantly breathing new life into the film. And there's a very funny running joke about a cigarette advertising film that keeps going wrong. The sunny Dorothy Provine, in a Doris Day-style role, easily outshines continental import Romy Schneider, as the femme fatale, while the whole flimsy whimsy is skilfully spun together by its director, David Swift, who had previously directed Lemmon to another virtuoso performance as the over-amorous landlord in Under the Yum Yum Tree.


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