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Monday, September 30, 2019

If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium (1969)

A British tour guide (Ian McShane)who's also a "love 'em and leave 'em" playboy, takes groups of American tourists on a whirlwind tour of Europe in eighteen days. On his latest tour, an attractive American (Suzanne Pleshette) catches his eye as a possible conquest but she's not a pushover. Directed by Mel Stuart (WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY)the movie suffers from the same thing the American tourists suffer from in the film. Namelybeing so rushed that you don't have the time to enjoy the trip. Crammed with a group of ensemble playersthe actors are reduced to playing stereotypes  and that's if they're lucky. Some of the actors get minimal screen time and don't even get a chance to develop even that. The exception is Pleshette and McShane whose sexual attraction becomes the focus of the movie. Cinematicallywhat we get is a Cook's tour of England, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Italy (both Rome and Venice). The massive cast includes John Cassavetes, Virna Lisi, Robert Vaughn, Joan Collins, Vittorio De Sica, Anita Ekberg, Ben Gazzara, Mildred Natwick, Elsa Martinelli, Peggy CassMurray Hamilton, Norman Fell, Catherine Spaak, Senta Berger, Marty Ingels, Sandy Baron, Pamela Britton, Patricia Routledge, Marina Berti, Hilarie Thompson and Michael Constantine. 

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