A Very Special Favor (1965)

Afraid that his psychologist daughter (Leslie Caron) will end up a spinster, a French attorney (Charles Boyer) talks a womanizing oilman (Rock Hudson) into seducing his career driven daughter as a favor. Directed by Michael Gordon (PILLOW TALK), this is a limp romantic comedy with an emphasis on sex. Its Neanderthal attitudes are repugnant in the 21st century! Boyer's father hasn't seen his daughter in 25 years yet he takes it upon himself to interrupt his daughter's life. The film's attitude that a woman is better suited to breeding babies than a career as a psychologist is downright offensive. Rock Hudson was the King of romcoms in the 1960s but he's tired here and just goes through the motions. Caron is charming in musicals but in romcoms, she's no Doris Day or Julia Roberts though to be fair, neither Day or Roberts could have saved this one! It was movies like this which pretty much ended Hudson's reign as a top box office star. With Walter Slezak, Dick Shawn (who brings some needed comedic timing to the project), Nita Talbot, George Furth, Norma Varden and Larry Storch.