The Perfect Furlough

1958
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1h 33m

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Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Linda Cristal in The Perfect Furlough (1958)

Army psychologist Lt. Vicki Loren oversees Corporal Paul Hodges when he is sent to Paris with young movie star Sandra Roca as a vicarious rest cure for all 103 of his sex-starved colleagues,... Read allArmy psychologist Lt. Vicki Loren oversees Corporal Paul Hodges when he is sent to Paris with young movie star Sandra Roca as a vicarious rest cure for all 103 of his sex-starved colleagues, who are building a radio base in the Arctic.Army psychologist Lt. Vicki Loren oversees Corporal Paul Hodges when he is sent to Paris with young movie star Sandra Roca as a vicarious rest cure for all 103 of his sex-starved colleagues, who are building a radio base in the Arctic.

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6.3/10

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- 1 win & 2 nominations

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Trivia
Jamie Lee Curtis was born exactly one week prior to the release of this movie, with both her parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, starring in it.

Goofs
It's simply beyond absurd that a bunch of grown men and women--including a doctor--could believe that a woman who had sex in the afternoon would then become noticeably pregnant that very evening. Even farce must have some sort of logic.

Quotes
Liz Baker: Oh, come off it, Lieutenant, admit it! The guy bugs you.
Lt. Vicki Loren: As far as I'm concerned, a bug is something you find crawling in your bed.
Liz Baker: I rest my case.

Connections
Referenced in Crawlspace (1986)

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Mambo Jambo
(uncredited)
Written by Dámaso Pérez Prado

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6/10

the imperfect comedy

I am in line with the vast majority of my fourteen IMDB colleagues below in regarding this as a pleasant if not very successful attempt by Blake Edwards to be Lubitsch. It is at its best in the scenes between Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh who have very good sexual and comic chemistry and balance, he being cheeky and sarcastic, she cynical and even more sarcastic. There are also some good bits with wry servants commenting upon their charges (this seems especially lifted from ol Ernst L), Curtis' bumbling attempts at being a French bellboy that pre date Peter Sellers in "Panther" by five years and Elaine Stritch given some nice zingers by scenarist Stanley Shapiro.

On the downside you have numerous failed attempts by Edwards/Shapiro to make the characters played by Linda Cristal, Keenyn Wynn and especially King Donovan's bumbling captain (a role that cries out for Ernie Kovacs) anything but faintly dull. And running through the film is Edwards' usual racism which becomes especially offputting in the scene where the French winemaker and his son opine on clean, bath taking Leigh versus unclean, bath avoiding Cristal. C plus.