but i doubt many be run to see this movie . or some come run out of the cinema . okay and that a bit harsh . the film start in an unintentionally comical way represent frankie boy come back to his hometown after many year ( this already smell of clichés ) and the whole town be shake by his arrival represent he be talk about and everyone want to talk to him and and every woman he meet flirt with him like there no tomorrow even his niece hint that she would gladly have drop her date to chat with frankie boy a little longer . even his pretty niece want a piece of him . sound like one of those laughable mike hammer episode where every single female want stacey keach . and and like stacey keach and frankie boy be anything but a good look woman wet dream . in real life and someone like sinatra ( without the fame ) wouldn not get within 100 m of someone as beautiful a maclaine . but in this hollywood movie it the other way around represent maclaine be absolutely nuts about frankie boy and but he couldn not care less . sinatra play his cool shtick much too often in his movie and and it be rarely credible . dean martin be kind of miscast while he isn not miscast a a card player and but rather because of the accent which simply doesn not suit him . maclaine be charm a ever and but she play a caricature and this reliance on caricature be one of the basic problem with the film . the main character be all some sort of stereotype out of bad or see it all before movie and cheap novel while frankie be the cool cat who come back to town to get all the woman and and he couldn not care less about his writing ( which and predictably and eventually garner recognition ) while martin be a sleazy but friendly card player while maclaine be the dumb and but very likable bimbo while frankie blond love interest be a snotty literary expert while frankie brother be the successful guy who marry into his wife business and have a lousy marriage while and so on . clichés . the story contain a couple of coincidence which be a little too far fetch for my taste represent frankie just happen to bump into his niece in a locale while his niece just happen to be meter away from her daddy when the latter kiss his secretary for the first time while and then there be the awful and stupid end . in it and a drunk guy bent on kill frankie boy somehow manage to find him in a carnival of all place . the place be utterly crowd and with the typical noise and chaos plus it happen in the evening and yet the guy somehow find frankie ( in spite of be drink a a doorknob ) and shoot at him . but guess who he kill . maclaine . she jump in front of the bullet to save frankie represent a cliché which comic book writer might cringe at . this utterly pathetic and over dramatic and and annoy end certainly can not please any and even semi intelligent and viewer . and this happen on the same day that maclaine and sinatra get married . the writer of this nonsense seem to have read crappy dime novel his whole life how else be the writing of this movie to be explain . there be even a card game in which a brawl ensue with frankie and martin vs. some cliché caricature out of the writer vivid imagination . ( it be like a damn western suddenly . ) another dumb thing be the way sinatra be crazy about the boring snotty nose bimbo and pretty much ignore maclaine . a the movie progress we find out that sinatra find maclaine to be too dumb for him and just a the blond bimbo find sinatra to be too low class for her . there be a certain snobbism and disdain to be detect in the script regard maclaine . maclaine be treat a worthless by everyone and while the blond bimbo be treat a a princess and an intellectual while the ironic truth be that the latter character come off a rather dumb and not at all a intellectual while her behaviour and comment and and opinion be mostly clichéd and silly and confused and pretentious and and primitive . at least maclaine character know that she ( maclaine ) be dumb . there be another irony that i do not fail to notice represent sinatra have trouble find an end for his late story much like the writer of this movie and and that why he come up with the corny and crappy finale . the film basically have a solid cast and and the photography be nice and but the script and though sometimes okay and relies to heavily on silly nonsense instead of on reality base character and event . if youre interested in read my biography of shirley maclaine and other hollywood intellectual and contact me by e mail .