Rally Round The Flag, Boys! (1958)

A public relations man (Paul Newman) is married to a woman (Joanne Woodward) who devotes herself to community service which leaves very little time for romance. When the U.S. Army decides to build a top secret installation in their community, she forms a committee to protest. Which leaves the husband at the mercy of the Army (who makes him a liaison between the town and the Army) and the town's predatory femme fatale (Joan Collins). Based on the best selling novel by Max Shulman and directed by Leo McCarey (THE AWFUL TRUTH). This big screen sitcom gets a lot of negativity but I found it modestly enjoyable. Newman and Woodward are overqualified for fluff like this but I suppose it was a change of pace for them after the heavy dramas (like CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF and THREE FACES OF EVE) that they were usually cast in. The humor is is overplayed and clearly Newman and Woodward aren't farceurs though even a Cary Grant and Irene Dunne would be hard put to squeeze much laughs from the material. But it does give Joan Collins a chance to show her comic chops and she manages to milk some laughs. With Jack Carson, Gale Gordon, Dwayne Hickman, Murvyn Vye and Tuesday Weld, who manages to steal what few scenes she has.