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form y separately published work icon Love Is A Ball single work   film/TV   crime   humour  
Alternative title: All This and Money Too; The Grand Duke and Mr Pimm
Adaptation of The Grand Duke and Mr Pimm Lindsay Hardy , 1959 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1963... 1963 Love Is A Ball
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A contemporary (largely negative) review in the New York Times offers the following synopsis:

'The movie begins familiarly, but potently, as Mr. Boyer, playing an international matchmaker, recruits some shrewd Riviera opportunists, headed by Mr. Ford, to spruce up a poor duke, Ricardo Montalban, as marital bait for Miss Lange, as the spoiled heiress.

'Mr. Ford is posted as a chauffeur in Miss Lange's villa. Guess what happens. And it takes a long, long time, with the incidents starting to meander at about midpoint. A seduction towards the end is laboriously coy.

'That sun-kissed scenery, though, should set anyone drooling, even as its wordliness magnifies the cardboard capering front and centre.'

Source:

'Screen: "Magnificent Sinner" Opens', New York Times, 25 April 1963, p.38.

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