Walk Don't Run (1966)

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

just watch it!

hyped garbage

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Back in the sixties, there were many of these cute romantic comedies that were stuck in a time warp--still dealing with sexual mores that were prevalent in the thirties. Few of them rose above the sappy conventions of the genre. Neil Simon was a notable exception.Run Don't Walk has a few comic moments, mostly attributable to Cary Grant. Frankly, Samantha Eggar is not an inspiring actress here. And Jim Hutton is a straight man by temperament. If there is passion passing between the two, the camera did not pick it up.Watch 1943's The More the Merrier instead. It is the precursor to RDW and shows how it should be done. It stars the funny and desirable Jean Arthur, the witty and dapper Joel McCrea, and the delightful Charles Coburn.One reviewer wrote that Cary Grant quit films after making RDW because he felt he could not handle the leading man roles anymore. That may be. TCM's explanation is that Cary and Dyan Cannon celebrated the birth of their daughter about this time, so Cary retired so he could spend time with his daughter. A pleasant alternative.RDW is filmed in Japan. That is an interesting aspect of the film. Watch this film for its cuteness, but watch The More the Merrier if you want a comedy with cleverness and more magnetism on screen.

Two stars because of Cary Grant, otherwise zero stars. This film has nothing to recommend it and it is a bit sad to see god Cary reduced to acting in a routine and tired remake of an older, truly brilliant and genuinely funny film called 'The More the Merrier'. Where the latter is full of flair and wit, this remake is forced and bloated; where the latter is full of well thought-out and interesting eccentricities, this feels like a string of clichéd and unfunny jokes. Cary knows he's in a bad film and although he does a decent job, one can feel that neither his heart nor his mind is in it.My advice, don't bother with this (unless you're set on covering the entire Cary Grant filmography),but do try and get hold of the 'The More the Merrier'. I wish Cary had ended his career(one of the most glorious film careers ever) with a much better film.

Columbia had a smash hit film in The More The Merrier with the great Jean Arthur. Cary Grant who made his last films at Universal such as Grass Is Greener, Operation Pettiooat, That Touch of Mink with Doris Day, Father Goose, and the superb Charade with Audrey Hepburn went to Columbia to remake the More The Merrier and called it Walk Don't Run and set at the Tokyo Olympiad. I read that Cary Grant personally sought out Jim Hutton who made all those wonderful MGM comedies with Paula Prentiss as the leading man and Samantha Eggar who starred in Columbia in William Wyler's The Collector as leading lady. Ms. Eggar is no Jean Arthur but then nobody to me can fill the shoes of that incomparable star Jean Arthur. Jim Hutton does well, and I liked his work, and Cary Grant is Cary Grant and that means the best there is. After this film Cary Grant retired despite numerous offers to return to the silver screen.

There are only so many things you can do to punch up a story. One of them is of interest to me, a sort of "watcher" inside the story. And that's what we have here. The deal is that Grant's character watches first the girl, then the couple. There's a couple of kids that watch, a sort of running joke. Passersby watch. There's a Russian watcher who provides some plot devices because he is so bad at it.Salted in are recorders and a crowd watching the proposal in the midst of a sporting event.Pah, even with all that, none of it is done effectively and the movie as a whole sinks.The designated cutie here is someone chosen only because of her long red hair and small nose. Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.