The greatest movie ever made..!

How sad is this?

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

. . . observes Edward G. Robinson as film director "Maurice Kruger," a clear stand-in for Alfred Hitchcock, who was at the pinnacle of his notoriety when TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN was released in 1962. Like "Hitch," Kruger operates under the thumb of his script supervisor\wife, Carla. Like Hitch, Kruger cannot keep his paws off his leading ladies, much to Carla's chagrin. As was the case with Alma Reville (Mrs. Hitch), Carla treats all the words of Kruger's scripts as if they're engraved on a stone tablet just carried down from Mt. Sinai. She does her best to destroy anyone who would dare change a syllable, or otherwise threaten the "Great Man's" Legacy. (Like Hitch, Kruger films no "cover shots," so producers cannot redo his scenes, either.) Though this Docudrama is marred by a surreal one-vehicle "car chase" toward the end (Kirk Douglas and Cyd Charisse seem to be in a sports car twirling in mid-air at the end of a cable), it did a public service for young actresses and models everywhere by blowing the whistle on Mr. Hitchcock's tyrannical philandering tendencies.

Two Weeks In Another Town is a movie primarily geared towards those 40 and older. The movie contains numerous good actors/actresses that I have enjoyed such as Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charise, George Hamilton, and George Macready. Any of which can carry any film. The movie can be enjoyed anytime, either alone or with a friend who might enjoy the movie. The plot is so so. The film seems slow most of the time. It is not an action packed movie, so don't expect it. Overall, the movie seems a little downbeat and downhearted. It was hard getting into the spirit of the movie. Bring your popcorn and plenty of conversation when you watch this movie. The movie does provide some modest entertainment, only because of the stars in the movie. Enjoy.

No one has mentioned the magnificent performance of George Macready as the agent, nor the devastating scene near the beginning of the film where he and Douglas have a chance encounter at an airport. To put it politely, in that scene Macready takes Douglas to task for past failures...it is one of the most brutal bits in all film history. Macready always knew how to make his mark, no matter how small the role! I recently enjoyed seeing him in his third film, The Story of Doctor Wassell, where he had a very small part as a Dutch army officer...striking and vivid, and that smooth chilly voice of his has never been equaled in all of filmdom.

What the heck were they thinking? Oh, I get it: Take the success of "La Dolce Vita", infuse it w/ the elements of a behind-the-scenes look into the tawdry goings on of a troubled Hollywood production and transplant it back to Rome (Say, "Cinecitta", boys and girls!). And for good measure, have a director w/ an Italian sounding name take responsibility for it.Trashy camp only begins to describe the little seen(and therefore intriguing to self-confessed cinephiles--we have TCM to thank) "Two Weeks In Another Town"(1962), but what a gloriously colorful bit of camp it is. Director Vincente Minnelli is an acknowledged master of color and---I don't know what else. The dialog has to be heard to be believed("Don't swallow all those pills! The doctor will have to come up and pump your stomach. You know how much that sickens me!"). Everybody spits, dribbles and sweats acid in this movie. Need it be said that everyone overacts? It's a wonder anything at all was left of the scenery after they chewed it up! And having pretty boy George Hamilton play a knife-wielding bad boy is a bit much, no? One exception is the young Daliah Lavi who left the bad acting to the two other women principals (Cyd Charisse and Claire Trevor)and just let her natural charms show through. She's even more fetching here because she looks to have more meat on her bones than in her subsequent roles( The Detainer in the OTHER Casino Royale).Kirk Douglas as the main character who gets to do the thankless job of saving a movie in trouble after its director(Edward G. Robinson) suffers a heart attack tries to do the same thing w/ this movie and barely succeeds. A plus, though, is that he tools around in(and gets to trash) a cool-looking Maserati convertible. Watching that car alone is worth it. As for the rest of the movie, it's like bad tabloid reportage. We know it's trash, but we can't keep our eyes off it!