
Geronimo1967
This is another one of those films that is really only part drama and part stage show. This one sees poor old bookie Jimmie (Robert Armstrong) get fleeced by aspiring chanteuse Pearl (Irene Harvey) before being dumped, broke, from a great height. Having licked his wounds, he decides that vengeance can be sweet as he engages an out of work Gilbert and Sullivan company to lure her back to the stage. Of course, he thinks it will all go suitably pear-shaped, but it actually transpires that just about anything but occurs. Whilst Hervey does fine here, its really the blandness of Armstrong that lets this down. He has some of the looks of a Clark Gable but none of the charisma, and even at its daftest there just isnt much chemistry between them, o...