What a waste of my time!!!

Boring, long, and too preachy.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I liked Beatty in this minor flick, even in the way that he carried himself (though I could certainly see Sinatra in the role), but it made me wonder if Liz was ever a good actress. She won an Oscar for Butterfield 8 which was god awful,and she did look older than her years, especially compared to actresses of that age now. The oddest thing to me was that her outfits and her hair were vintage early sixties, possibly mid 60s. I kept checking and rechecking the year the movie was made. One of the reviewers commented that the movie was in a genre with Two for the Seesaw, a film made in 1962, a decidedly different age. The whole thing just didn't fit together which may explain Taylor's intermittent fits of shrieking.

I recorded this off of the TV years ago & I must say I really like it more as the years go by.When I first saw it about 25 years ago I didn't get it at all & was very disappointed by the cheap setting etc...it felt very much like a filmed play.But now I really appreciate it as very sensitive film about two lost people who find each other at lonely points in their lives & hook up to conquer the boredom and loneliness, take each other for granted and then realise they actually love each other.Liz could be a very sensitive, emotional & witty performer. She's often at her best in little movies and I think this is one of her most touching and emotional performances. She gives this picture wit and soul which make up for the cheaply put together locations.Warren Beatty, who I usually find quite 'blah,' is also good as the guy with a gambling habit who falls for a lonely dancer.

Playing one of her rare working class girls, Liz is a Las Vegas showgirl who lives in a plastic little apartment and watches old movies on late night television… The ambiance doesn't take shape for Liz; we've heard too much about the diamonds and the yachts and the enormous household staff to believe her in such modest circumstances… Frank D. Gilroy's slight, sentimental script is about practically nothing at all… A girl meets a guy (Warren Beatty), they go to bed, they part, they get together again… He has a gambling problem, and she's engaged to an older married man who keeps promising to get a divorce… The gambler is a ladies' man; clever and suave, he tests his way into the girl's bed and then into her heart…In a lightweight romantic comedy-drama like this, the charm is everything… As the gambler, Warren Beatty has it; as the bruised, lonely, overage chorus girl, Liz doesn't… Her off-screen aura works 'against' the role, just as Beatty's image as her capricious lover works beautifully for the character… Liz tries, though, but she is really too old for this sort of thing, and far too heavy and matronly to pass as a chorus girl kicking up her heels every night to earn a meager living…Beatty transforms the material, making it seem much sharper and brighter than it is… His reckless, cocky charm, his clever comic timing, his light seductive voice reveal some of his best work… When she catches Beatty's light style, Taylor is pleasant, but when she goes weepy, when Stevens encourages her to play the dramatic actress with style, she misplaces the character

Frank Gilroy's play brought to the screen by the great George Stevens; sadly, his last film. The maudlin characterizations by Liz and Warren just don't cut it, simply because they seem far too old and worldly to be victimized by the circumstances set forth for them. Old-fashioned in the worse way. Maurice Jarre provides one of his best scores, though.