Rotten
Wilder, usually a director of considerable flair and inventiveness -- has not been able this time out to rise above a basically vulgar, as well as creatively delinquent, screenplay...
Variety Staff, Variety
Kiss Me, Stupid
It happened in Climax, Nevada
1964 · 2h 5m · PG-13
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Billy Wilder
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Kiss Me, Stupid
Overview
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
Director and cast
- Billy Wilder Director
- Dean Martin as Dino
- Kim Novak as Polly the Pistol
- Ray Walston as Orville Jeremiah Spooner
- Felicia Farr as Zelda Spooner
- Cliff Osmond as Barney Milsap
- Barbara Pepper as Big Bertha
- Skip Ward as Milkman
- Doro Merande as Mrs. Pettibone
- Tom Nolan as Johnnie Mulligan
- Alice Pearce as Mrs. Mulligan
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Characteristically cynical, clever and brash, it's helped out enormously by the performances of Martin, Farr and (particularly) Novak...
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
I recommend Kiss Me, Stupid to the skeptical with no reservations whatsoever.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
Kiss Me, Stupid is unlikely to inspire a Broadway musical, top an AFI poll, or birth a hundred-dollar coffee-table book, but it could burnish Wilder's posthumous reputation.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Fresh
There was the sharp contrast of surface-banter and concentration on detail; of unpredictable laughter, brushed off by disciplined professionalism.
Murray Schumach, New York Times
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