The biggest critique I have is that William Holden is not nearly hot or charismatic enough for this role. The musical cues were jarring and strange and utterly perfect. The script while at times silly and stilted was also so specific and demented that I loved it. The picnic scenes in particular had a lot of energy. All the women seared off the screen, but it was very hard to take the animal magnetism of William Holden seriously.
The biggest critique I have is that William Holden is not nearly hot or charismatic enough for this role. The musical cues were jarring and strange and utterly perfect. The script while at times silly and stilted was also so specific and demented that I loved it. The picnic scenes in particular had a lot of energy. All the women seared off the screen, but it was very hard to take the animal magnetism of William Holden seriously.