James Garner, never my favourite dramatic actor, gets a rare old going over in the acting stakes as his four female co-stars all turn in eye-catching performances in this variation on one of Hollywood's most durable plots: the man who has lost his memory. Garner is a man who wakes up on a bench in Central Park minus his memory. His encounters with four women bring back fragments of the past, of past women - or just one woman. The plot is so satisfying that it's a pity the solution to it all isn't more of a climax. Delbert Mann directs in an efficient, if old-fashioned, way, and there's some splendid black and white photography of New York by Ellsworth Fredericks. Suzanne Pleshette is as warmly real as she always is - whenever she has a character to work on - while Angela Lansbury and Jean Simmons play to the gallery to great effect as floozies from opposite ends of the social scale.

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