Promise Her Anything (1966)

A single mother (Leslie Caron) moves into a Greenwich Village apartment with her infant son (Michael Bradley). In spite of the handsome but struggling film maker (Warren Beatty) living next door coming on to her, she sets her sights on her employer (Robert Cummings) but there's a problem. He hates kids! Directed by Arthur Hiller (LOVE STORY). A sad little affair. Beatty tries awfully hard (he even does pratfalls) but the laughs just aren't there. The film just assumes that putting a cute little baby at the center of things would have us cooing how cute the little bugger is but they should have used a puppy instead. The screenplay by William Peter Blatty (THE EXORCIST) is painfully unfunny which leaves the actors drowning and desperately looking for a life raft. The stagnant direction of Arthur Hiller doesn't help matters any. The best thing about the movie is the terrific title song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David sung by Tom Jones. With Keenan Wynn, Hermione Gingold, Lionel Stander, Cathleen Nesbitt, Asa Maynor and a young Donald Sutherland.