This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

I happened to see " Boeing, Boeing" on the TCM cable channel, and enjoyed seeing Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis in this farce. They reminded me of a slightly more modern version of the comical "Road to ..." series of movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.Although not quite as polished as Hope & Crosby, Curtis & Lewis performed better than I expected together, and all the actors performed well. The story idea of a bachelor trying to juggle relationships and schedules with three flight attendants staying in one Paris apartment was interesting even if flawed at times.Fans of Hope & Crosby movies, or Tony Curtis & Jack Lemon should like this pairing of Curtis & Lewis working together to keep the three flight attendants, all engaged to Curtis, from discovering each other. As the scheme falls apart due to flight schedule changes and early arrivals, it is enjoyable to find out how long the girls can be kept unaware that they are sharing the same fiancé and apartment.I do agree with another reviewer that the movie retains a stage play quality, but that is not a significant drawback to the story.

A lot of fun. BOEING BOEING is not exactly a jewel in the Jerry Lewis canon, but it's still highly enjoyable. Tony Curtis stars as a crafty foreign correspondent in Paris juggling three fiancés. His troubles go from big to huge when rival newspaper man Lewis shows up to cause even more chaos. Curtis is very funny and Lewis is remarkably restrained, playing what is essentially the straight-man. The three woman playing Curtis's harem are quite fetching and Christiane Schmidtmer, as the German stewardess, is really funny. It's all silly, very glossy and totally entertaining. Thelma Ritter is a big plus as Curtis's not so patient housekeeper.

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.

I first saw "Boeing Boeing" almost exactly a year ago when it came on TV, and I must say that I was delightfully surprised. While it was no comedy masterpiece, it still offered many genuinely amusing moments. The pairing of Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis worked perfectly and it was interesting to see Thelma Ritter (who appeared in Hitchcock's "Rear Window") as the over-employed housekeeper.Good entertainment, if you can ignore its staginess (the film takes place almost entirely in one apartment).