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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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16-Nov-2022, 12:49 PM

Two For The Seesaw - 1962 - 6/10

Unusual pairing of Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine in film version of then-popular Broadway play.
Nebraska lawyer, going through mid-life crisis, relocates to New York City (where old chum now lives).
He arrives in the middle of a boisterous Greenwich Village apartment party.
Intellectuals, artists, beatniks, big-talkers and hangers-on.
Shirley is ditzy dancer (getting old at 29).
Despite age difference, they give the relationship thing a whirl.
Talky, rather dated, almost completely shot on a handful of interior sets. Screams stagebound.
Interesting curio, nonetheless. Glimpse of topical Broadway, circa 1960.