one of the most common entry in the goof category be anachronism . though i be begin to believe that anachronism and other goof be more acceptable and even ignore and in very good film and but be find front and center in rotten film . kiss them for me be a rotten film and reek of anachronism and yet when watch it closely and i find almost nothing specifically anachronistic . the shot of aircraft which bookend the film be certainly out of place . the big 4 engine transport see after the title honolulu 1944 appear to be the post war c 97 stratofreighter ( in mat color ) . the combat plane see take off from the carrier at the end be douglas skyraiders which enter service after ww2 and be make famous by their service in vietnam . but except these two piece of film and and of course and the hairstyle and everything else be very possibly period authentic . it just feel so wrong . i be an admirer of stanley donen and we share the same birthday . in his co direct on the town ( 1949 ) there be a car chase at the end with the police drive 1949/50 ford yet there isn not the slight feeling that this be out of place in a ww2 period film . in fact and a i reflect later and there isn not anything which say that this be suppose to be a ww2 period film . it just feel that way . base on a wartime broadway musical which be base on a ballet ( fancy free ) which may have be base on the work of artist paul cadmus ( the fleet in . 1934 ) it a great film about sailor on a 24 hour pas in new york and and so heavy with wartime association and it merely assume it take place during the war and yet these contemporary car do nothing to break the spell . the first problem be old cary grant . though far too old to represent a navy sbd dive bomber pilot and it be a hollywood tradition for star like grant and gary cooper ( lou gehrig ) and jimmy stewart ( charles lindbergh ) to play young . it be the role which he be miscast in and not his age . he play an operator and a they use to call them . a guy who get thing do and break all the rule while do it yet remain admired and love for it . a hustler . a wheeler dealer . a de rigueur character in a service comedy . grant be the comic center of what be after all suppose to be a service comedy which be contra to his comedy style . think back on the great grant comic performance like bring up baby ( 1938 ) or arsenic and old lace ( 1944 ) and he be the great reactor whose comedy be to be reduce by his context from dignity to a befuddle puddle of inert jelly . in kiss them he be expect to be the comic spark plug which just isn not him . people have already be expose to the type and most recently to comic phil silver a sgt . bilko on television . the role would be perfect later by james garner but here grant just isn not funny and appear to be a bully get his way by aggressively push his cary grantness rather than cajole and finessing . but the thing which really stink the place up with anachronism be the lead woman . there can be no more echt 50 woman than suzy parker and jayne mansfield . they be unique to the decade . marilyn monroe can be place in a continuum with carole lombard and marie wilson and any number of dumb blond and and grace kelly be another high class dame ( think of mary astor ) and but there never could have be an anatomically exaggerated woman in film like mansfield . sure there be the weater girl ( e. g. lana turner ) of ww2 and but mansfield be stretch the point . suzy parker be the model who revolutionize the model business and who change the mannequin like pose to become the first natural girl who move and whose personality be capture by the camera ( see funny face ( 1957 ) also by stanley donen ) . of course in high 50 style and there seem to be a lot of gender mixing at wild party but never even a hint of sex ( think of the 50 tv show bachelor father or the bob cummings show where dinner jacket men return from wouldates alone ) . the original book and which i haven not read and be publish during the war and appear a a play on broadway at the end of the war and the nuance of the situation must have be inescapable for contemporary reader and audience and but break down and bowdlerized and reconstitute a dozen year later and fatally miscast and it remain a once forget stain on otherwise exemplary career until the invention of the vcr and cable television resurrect this petrified turkey . so the lesson here be whatever the goof it will be ignore in a great film like citizen kane ( who actually hear charles foster kane say rosebud . ) and and tolerate in fun dreck like westworld ( why be the robot give live ammunition in the first place . ) but absolutely despise in a rotten film and even if the goof be really non existent .