The April Fools (1969)

After receiving a promotion, an unhappily married executive (Jack Lemmon) is invited to his boss's (Peter Lawford) luxury apartment for a cocktail party. He leaves the party with a beautiful French blonde (Catherine Deneuve) to go for a drink but they end up spending the night together and falling in love. What he doesn't know is that she's the boss's wife. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg (COOL HAND LUKE), this is one of the best movie romances of the 1960s. The first part of the film is almost magical especially a sequence where the two meet up with an eccentric long married couple (Charles Boyer, Myrna Loy) who live in a spectacular mansion. The second half of the film gets a bit silly especially an interminable sequence featuring Lemmon with two drunk companions (Jack Weston, Harvey Korman). Lemmon and Deneuve are very sweet together and if their chemistry doesn't quite sizzle, its more realistic than fireworks. The film's score is by Marvin Hamlisch but it's Burt Bacharach's music that highlight the film. In addition to the lovely title song sung by Dionne Warwick, one of the film's funniest moments features Bacharach's I Say A Little Prayer sung by Susan Barrett at the cocktail party. The cast includes Sally Kellerman, Melinda Dillon, Kenneth Mars and David Doyle.