Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Tony Curtis has a tight schedule keeping track of the airline stewardesses or hostesses, as they call them here, that are coming and going at his bachelor pad, so the last thing he needs is a roommate, but he gets one when Jerry Lewis shows up in "Boeing Boeing." Even Jerry picks one out for himself. A fast paced, almost frenetic time you will have if you spend any time here. Just ask Thelma Ritter, the cook and maid, who has to know the delicate palate of each and when to show whose picture when, as the picture in the frame is changed constantly. Tony is a news reporter, but that really plays hardly any part of the plot at all, when Tony is always at odds with keeping up with the revolving door. But he tells Jerry that three is just the right number. Four would be too much, and two would be too repetitive. Yes. Three girls to have and bed is just right. He says he's engaged to them, but he secretly has no plans to change the status quo. Despite the ever-changing roster of activity, Thelma Ritter supplies much of the film's humor with her usual delivery of witty one-liners. She does add a degree of respectability to this film, that, without her, would probably feel a bit sleazy. For a non-stop parade of young ladies in Tony Curtis' pad, check out "Boeing Boeing" and see if he and Jerry Lewis ever settle down!

How long can you allow Tony Curtis, to play a swinging bachelor in Paris attempting to juggle his charade of having 3 airline stewardesses as his fiances at one time? You know from the very beginning that the fireworks will have to start once a takeoff will have to be canceled and the stewardesses will all converge on the apartment they share with Curtis.Jerry Lewis plays it straight to Curtis. Jerry needs those funny lines which he is so capable of delivering. Unfortunately, the writing for him is totally inadequate here.Of course, as always, Thelma Ritter, steals the show as Curtis's maid who has to juggle all these women in her schedule without revealing what is going on. Ritter looked very bad in this film and it's no surprise that she died 4 years later.

Curtis and Lewis didn't work well as a comedy team. Lewis seemed to be wanting to do something more than his nasal simpletons. How about that name, Robert Reed? For those who may not know, Robert Reed was Mike Brady in the Brady Bunch tv show.The movie seemed to be wanting to be a racy European comedy, but the stewardess who roomed with Tony Curtis had her own room. The maid, Thelma Ritter, would change out all of the belongings of the stewardess who was leaving and replace them with the belongings of the one who was coming in. Jerry wanted some of this action, which was weak. All the conflict could have taken place without Lewis being there. Lewis would get beaten up as he spoke badly about Lufthansa (referring to the German stewardess) and some Germans overheard him. This became the code, to refer to each stewardess by the airline she flew for.There would be one bad moment in the restaurant when Jerry would talk about another stewardess returning and one not leaving yet, and he would proclaim "Boeing, Boeing" as tho to say 'boing, boing' and this made for a very unnecessary inclusion of the title in the movie.But hands down, the stewardesses and Thelma Ritter were the stars. The British Vicky, played by Suzanna Leigh, liked kidneys. We began with her and she said everytime she was ready to go out, Thelma Ritter would get hostile toward her. She didn't know that Ritter now had to make way for the incoming flight. Air France's Jacqueline, played by bobbed Dany Saval, was a tiny wisp of a girl who liked soufflets. But it was Lufthansa's Lise, played by Christiane Schmidtmer, who made it all funny. Very well endowed (VERY well endowed!) she would arrive when the soufflet was still around."Soufflets are for people mitout teeth," she would state and want weiner-schnitzels.As one stewardess would be leaving, Thelma Ritter would start getting snide.the British stewardess would tell Ritter something."Vunderbar," Ritter would exclaim disinterested.The funniest was when she was changing out the undergarments and said Jacqueline would get lost in Lise's brassiere. She had to keep throwing away soufflets and sausages, in anticipation of which stewardess was coming next.Then there would be one grand moment when two of the stewardesses were heading into the restroom at the same time! Oh no!Turns out there was no need to worry, as the women didn't know one another. The women were the stars of this movie in the end, including Thelma Ritter. The guys could have been played by anyone else.Cute little "la la" tune played at the beginning and the end tho.

When the opening credits run, and the supporting female cast members ‘measurements' are shown beneath their names, you have no doubt you're in the 60's, bedroom farce, defined. In a role reversal of sorts Jerry Lewis plays straight man to Tony Curtis this time around .Bernie Lawrence (Curtis) is an American newspaper man stationed in Paris, the man for whom there is never too many airline hostesses, just too little time. His delicately balanced, and timed to the minute, 4-way love life comes totally unwound when old pal Robert Reed (Lewis) arrives for an unexpected stay.Cliché after cliché, time stamped in most every shot, Boeing Boeing is a tribute to a different type of filmmaking than we see today, a different morality, a different approach to comedy.Wonderful Paris sights are an added treat. Recommended.