An actor (Dean Martin) who plays a doctor on a popular TV show is constantly besieged by women including the wives of his best friends. He begins to have second thoughts about getting married to his longtime fiancee (Elizabeth Montgomery). Directed by Daniel Mann (THE ROSE TATTOO), this is TV sitcom material masquerading as a big screen comedy. The Hollywood comedies of the 1960s were a highly uneven lot. For every gem like THE PINK PANTHER or THE NUTTY PROFESSOR, you had a MR. HOBBS TAKES A VACATION, YOURS MINE AND OURS or this one which wastes a lot of talented people. As Elizabeth Montgomery's best gal pal, this was the film debut of Carol Burnett and you'd never know she was one of the funniest women on the planet based on her work here. Outside of a briefly amusing striptease, she flounders like everybody else. The large cast includes Richard Conte, Jill St. John, Martin Balsam, Dianne Foster, Elliot Reid, Macha Meril, Louis Nye, Yoko Tani, Jack Soo and Elisabeth Fraser.
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