Strange Bedfellows (1965)

After seven years of separation, an American business executive (Rock Hudson) and his Italian artist wife (Gina Lollobrigida) agree on a divorce. But when they meet again, the old passions come back and the divorce is forgotten. However, the reasons for their separation are still there. He's a conservative and she is a liberal and this continues to cause friction. Written and directed by Melvin Frank (THE COURT JESTER), this romantic comedy lacks the match that could ignite it. Time has not been kind to it. We've seen Hudson go through these paces many times before, in his pairings with Doris Day and even with Lollobrigida in the first (and better) film they did together, COME SEPTEMBER. It's just not fresh anymore. Some of the material doesn't hold up today like the smirky misunderstandings on Hudson's sexuality, i.e. thinking he's pregnant. He's even in bed with Edward Judd (playing Lollobrigida's boss) but, of course being 1965, they're both clothed in pajamas. As if sensing his romcom days were over, in the following years, Hudson concentrated on thrillers (BLINDFOLD), dramas (SECONDS), war movies (TOBRUK) and action films (ICE STATION ZEBRA). With Gig Young, Terry Thomas, Nancy Kulp, Howard St. John, Edith Atwater and Arthur Haynes.