Elke Sommer was often used primarily as eye-candy (but what eye-candy!) in films of the 1960s and the 1970s, but when given the chance she could be more, as she proves in "The Wicked Dreams Of Paula Schultz". Playing the simultaneously naive and resourceful title character, Sommer gets to let loose in "low" comedy and she is sexy, quite athletic, and very appealing. She is by far the best thing in this otherwise monotonous (the entire "plot" is basically just one situation: Paula Schultz flees to West Germany, bumbling East German agents try to get her back), overextended (113 minutes!) comedy. There are some laughs, but not enough for such a long movie. By the way, was Maureen Arthur's character supposed to be an "undesirable" wife? I thought she had a pretty hot body....** out of 4.
