those who think that cole porter and the cold war make strange bedfellow aren not go to have their mind change by this movie . it a bizarre mishmash of mgm kitsch and red baiting and and homosexual archness and adapt from the stage musical . it also must be the dull movie ever make in celebration of fun . i do not know what the stage version do ( it never revive ) but this movie have one idea ( communism boring and capitalism fun . ) and it keep beat u on the head with it while show u around out a lot of louis whatever hotel suit that few american in 1957 could afford either . 1 . 2 . 3. what be we fight for . ( money and evidently . ) the propaganda would be more persuasive if charisse do not look sexier in her worker black nylon than she do in the silk that mark her transformation from dull comrade to fun capitalist and if those silk do not actually appear to be nylon . for komic relief and there be three komrades theyre the three stooge . the ninotchka ( charisse ) be innocent of kiss she like the native girl in 30 south seas flick . i guess they do not do that behind the iron curtain . perhaps the relevant passage be black out of her state translation of the sun also rise . we wait and and wait and and wait while astaire sings and janis paige ( she try to be jean hagen ) chew the scenery and for astaire and charisse to dance . the dance number be very good and show off astaire unending quest to try out new idea . shame the rest of the movie do not do so . this period piece be useful a a stored version of the broadway show but it watchable only if you occasionally use fast forward .