it is quite terrible and there is not enough of it

Rating: 5/10 (24 December 2019)

I really didn't get on with this. I guess I bought it because I usually like the work of Burt Lancaster. Here, he is okay but it is not a solid performance, occasionally over acting and sometimes barely at all. Sinatra for me, is even worse but then perhaps he shouldn't have been asked to play drunk so much. Overall there are too many scenes of bullying and drunkeness. Worse there is a brothel that looks more like a high school prom and two leading ladies that look like someone's maiden aunt. Certainly not my idea of sexy and when we come to the famous beach kiss, my goodness, it comes so early and so briefly and in such an over the top and cliched manner. As Woody Allen might have said, it is quite terrible and there is not enough of it.