A face-off between two Chicago prohibition mobsters at its core, the movie is soaked to the brim with the suave and verve of the sixties and the unforgettable rat pack. Excpect off-the-wall and someimes quite explicit one-liners when Dino & Co let their charm ooze of the screen. While some musical numbers feel very much pushed into place, as soon as the boys start singing in duets or triplets, old school magic happens and it is a delight to see numbers featuring Frank, Dean & Bing performing together. Peter Falk shows why he is severely underrated, especially when it comes to campy comedy. The female actrors make for a nice decoration, I guess that fits a movie by the Boys Club that was the late Rat Pack.
An amusing screwball movie, which could have been a disaster without a proper lead, but Murray pulls it off, as he plays a geekish bloke who is mistaken for a secret agent. Murray stumbles from disaster into the next and the movie relies on slapstick, one liners and Murray's iritiatingly stoic humour. Like many American goof fests, the movie goes over the top towards the end and whatever sublimity made the first two third great, is absent in the last. It is still a very nice movie, a classic screwball formula which falls right into Murray's lap.