JohnHowardReid Any film with Walter Slezak is a potentially interesting movie, and "Come September" with its attractive photography and clever film editing, is no exception. In this one, Slezak has an opportunity to speak Italian. In one of the film's cleverest sequences, he mistranslates Rock's protestations to the police. His Italian is fluent but still spoken with his characteristic German accent. And as usual, he is a sheer delight. Bobby Darin is much less amusing. In fact, he's as boorish as usual. I wasn't enamored of the strident Miss Dee either, but Lollo is exquisitely clothed and dishabille. Good old Rock looks appropriately confused, but there's some clever directorial work at the climax in which Rock and the police gesticulate on one side of the train window to the silently mouthing Lollo on the other!

SimonJack "Come September" is a light comedy and romance that mixes two movie generations. The one, with Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida, were stars for the baby boomer generation in its teens (1950s-1960s). The other, with Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee, represented those teens. Although, when this film was made, Darin and Dee were married (Dec. 1960). He was 25 years old and an established singing star and Dee already had a dozen movies behind her as a 19-year-old. In this film, they are both college students. Hudson plays a wealthy American, Robert Talbot, who spends a lot of time in Europe creating business mergers and other deals to build his empire. A few years earlier, he had bought a villa in Italy, and each September he retreats to his villa to relax. He has a local female love interest who looks forward to his annual retreats. Gina Lollobrigida plays Lisa Fellini. The movie was filmed at locations around Italy. The source of much of the humor in this film is Walter Slezak who plays Maurice Cavell, major domo of Robert's villa. When the cat is gone, the mice come out to play. And, Maurice turns the villa into a posh hotel for 11 months of the year. Guests staying there now include some young college girls. Among them is Sandy Stevens (Sandra Dee); and camping out nearby are some American college guys touring Europe. Bobby Darin is one of them – Tony. The film has some very funny scenes, and plenty of witty lines. Suffice it to say that the two generations clash at times, and the "older" folks pick up some pearls of wisdom from the younger ones. In the end, love triumphs, and Robert and Lisa tie the knot. I correctly guessed the last scene, which should give everyone a smile. This is a film that everyone should enjoy. Here are some sample lines of dialog. Robert, "Teenagers are like the H bomb. When they go off, it's better to observe them from a distance."Maurice, "She loves you. She wants to marry you." Robert, "Yeah, she has a funny way of showing it." Maurice, "Women are emotional, She's been hurt. She wants time to think." Robert, "Yeah, well, I want to go back to America where people get married without thinking."Lisa, "Why be miserable with someone you don't love? It's better to be miserable with someone you do love."

laurel21000 I came to this picture expecting to only skip through parts of it.I had watched Kevin Spacey's "Beyond the Sea." That sent me to seek out Dodd Darin's book about his parents, Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee. This autobio/bio (Dream Lovers:The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee), by the way, turned out to be one of the best written and compelling bios ever. Dodd Darin came across as so obviously a person of very high integrity and he wrote about his life and his parents with a very strong priority on finding and presenting the truth. So different from the many bs-laden, so-called autobiographys with all of their "composite characters" (code for I'm lying)littering the market.And then that book led me to want to watch "Come September." It was on this picture that Darin and Dee first met. It was also Bobby Darin's first role.So I was mainly curious to get insight about them and was prepared and expected to have to wade through a mostly boring comedy to do so.But, surprise on me, "Come September" turned out to be Terrific! Fantastic! Wonderful! The script was very sharp and clever. There were tons of extremely witty lines. The laughs just kept coming. Quite a few were of the laugh out loud variety.The film had great timing. It just kept zipping along delivering the entertainment big-time scene after scene.The casting was superb. Every part was maximized by the respective actor. Walter Slezak was excellent. He contributed a lot to the overall warmth and good-natured tone of the film. Gina Lollobrigida was stunningly beautiful. The cinematography of Italy was stunningly beautiful. This is just a truly first-rate film. Well worth seeing and well worth adding to a film library. It has also made me enthusiastic to search out other work by its very talented director, Robert Mulligan and its equally excellent screenwriter, Stanley Shapiro.

teleadm-persson This movie actually becomes better with each viewing.The first time I thought it was a so-so 60's farce Though many scenes now might look old-time nonsense! This movie is actually directed by Mulligan who's next pic was To kill a Mockingbird!Gina is so much better in comedies than she ever was in biblical Movies (and that horrible Solmon and Sheba).Rock is Rock but on the light side! Even with a gray Rolls Royce.After watching Kevin Spacey movie about Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee, This movie has sure become more interesting.Walter Slezsak is for once not playing a nazi, as if Conrad Viet would have lived, as a matter of fact I've never seen Walter in a nice guy role as this before.Brenda de Banzie has a small role too, I remember her in Man who knew too much" 1956 Hitchcock, aqnd olde English farce about shoemaker Hobson's choice