Visual Stunner Stifled by an Old Fart Actor

Rating: 8/10 (25 February 2017)

I have only one question--why is James Stewart still single at the obvious age of 50+ and why is tethered to an old college ex-girlfriend? Hitch used to say "let the audience worry about how Stewart gets down from the roof" but we still worry as to why a very old (esp. in the 1950s) man is obsessed with a young woman who could almost be his granddaughter? And why is he contentedly living alone in San Fran. on the cusp of the gay revolution? His final fantasy is remaking Kim Novak over like his own Barbie just to be able to stomach looking at her in the end. I'd say this is a classic closeted gay man using an ex- girlfriend as a beard while he plays couturier to his doll (Recall Clifton Webb in 'Laura'?) and then bored with her tosses her off the roof (typical teenage boy stuff). It's sad that with a younger lead man and more sex appeal this could've been a great psychological drama!