Come Blow Your Horn (1963)

When his 21 year old younger brother (Tony Bill) moves into his Manhattan bachelor pad, a swinging ladies man (Frank Sinatra) finds the younger brother turning into a facsimile of himself and he doesn't like what he sees. Based on the play by Neil Simon and directed by Bud Yorkin (DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE). This was Simon's first Broadway hit. The film is a relic of the swinging 60s. From its hideous Oscar nominated sets to its lecherous repartee, the movie screams, "Early 1960s!". The film has much in common with Sinatra's similar but far superior 1955 romantic comedy, THE TENDER TRAP but without that movie's visual wit and charm. Unlike the later films based on his plays, Simon had nothing to do with this film version which might account for some of the flat dialog. The performers are fine though Tony Bill's mugging gets tiresome very quickly though he makes for an uncanny physical match as Sinatra's kid brother. The melodic cocktail lounge score is by Nelson Riddle and there's a wonderful title song sung by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen that Sinatra sings midway into the picture. With Lee J. Cobb as Sinatra's father (though he's only four years older) who despite his constant bellowing still manages to give the best performance in the picture, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John, Molly Picon, Dan Blocker, Phyllis McGuire and a cameo by Dean Martin as a homeless bum.