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AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

kapelusznik18 ***SPOLIERS*** The beautiful Gina Lollobrigida as Guillietta, or Julie for short, Cameron is stripped down to her bear bar and panties. That as her shady past is revealed as a high price call-girl at her boyfriend Nick Stratton's, Anthony Franciosa, dad's big time Chicago construction mogul Pete Stratton, Ernest Borgnine, 30th wedding anniversary party. Rick who was to announce his engagement to Julie is dumbstruck by this shocking revelation that's even more shocking to him and his mom Pete's long suffering wife Yvonne, Luana Patten, is that Pete was one of her best customers! Running for her life out of the party before she got lynched by the outraged party goers Julie ends up in a sleazy downtown hotel where her lover, who by then got over the shock, Rick finds her. It's then after Pete was made to drop the charges, in her being a hooker, against Julie by his tearful son Rick that the two lovebirds decided to check out to Mexico and, by getting away from it all, blend into the woodwork. Pete soon realizing that there's no way he can break up the romance between Rick & Julie drops into their hotel in Acapulco unannounced and gives Julie his blessing to marry Rick and be accepted into the Stratton family. But by then the damage was already done with a guilt ridden Julie in knowing all the trouble she caused dropping her idea to marry Rick and going back to her call-girl days. Julie ends up making a complete fool of herself at a local bar by getting gloriously drunk and trying to pick every man there!****SPOILERS*** It's when Rick sees that Julie has gone completely loco, mad, he decides the best thing to do is go back home to Chicago and start a new life working for his father's construction company. The tragic ending has Rick change his mind and decide to take Julie back no matter how crazy she is but by then it's too late. Julie in the end ended it all by taking a swan dive off an 80 foot cliff in the Gulf of Mexico. But as we see as the movie ends the heart-broken Rick is more then forgiving to her for what she did to him as well as the Stratton family.

Sheila_Beers I liked this film, which struck me as "Camille" in a modern setting with beautiful scenery and wardrobe in color and expressive music in the soundtrack.The main similarity with "Camille" is the theme of "Redemption and Forgiveness" or the lack thereof with tragic results. Like Armand Duval in "Camille," the young man (portrayed by Anthony Franciosa) idealizes the exquisite young woman with whom he has fallen in love. To him, she is beautiful and innocent, and he wants a future with her. Then his father (Ernest Borgnine) reveals the ugly truth, that Giulietta is a high-priced call girl and that he and his middle-aged friends have been her clients.The young man is confused, but he wants to forgive Giulietta for her past and help her make a new start by marrying her. They go away on holiday, but former clients (who are self righteous and who have an unforgiving attitude) come out of the woodwork and refuse to let Giulietta forget her past. As in Camille, the end is tragic, leaving the male characters to consider the parts (good or bad) they played in Giulietta's life.

Chung Mo Sick at home, I chose to watch this despite having no idea what this movie was about. Never heard of it before either.First off, Bourgnine really got into the role of a domineering Greek immigrant architect. He spends quite a bit of time yelling at everyone. His scenes with Franciosa are very good and provided me with a reason to watch the whole thing. Lollobrigida is good but the scenes between her and Franciosa are gooey.The plot is interesting as Lollobrigida's character is revealed to be a high-class hooker leading to Franciosa's character's very confused response and his confkict with his father who happens to be one of her clients. It could have been interesting but the movie opts for cheap moralizing at the end. I have seen the same ending in "bad girl tries to make good" movies from the 1930s.The title is also a cheap attempt to get the male audience to think they might glimpse Lolabrigida nude at some point. Never comes close although there's a wild dissolve / montage that has an erupting champagne bottle superimposed over Lollobrigida face as she's clearly on her back. Hmmm.You can skip it if it ever shows up again.

Ralph I caught this on TCM running movies with Mr. Bourgnine, and based on the votes wasn't expecting much; killing time on a business trip afternoon. Maybe I'm hot for Italian women(OK I am). Franciosa and Borgnine seemed very believable to me. All the main characters are very flawed in this one and thats what makes it so interesting. Major conflicts develop in this one and Julie (Gina) is a dagger in the heart. Interesting thing, the hotel detective sniffs the cigarette to see if its pot! All the characters are dealing with their head problems, maybe to the point that it looses credibility, but I really enjoyed this one nonetheless.