Review of Sylvia

Sylvia (1965)
4/10
A bit clichéd forerunner of our PC world
27 May 2012
Warning: Spoilers
A private detective is hired by a wealthy man to see if there is any dirt on his fiancée before he marries her.

There are some 60s socially relevant themes I could have done without-- a trickle compared to the fire hydrant we endure today. Appalachian Poverty Female-Female Friends etc...

Would anyone be so deprived that they wouldn't know what a real flower was? Hard to believe.

A couple plot flaws...after getting her face slashed Baker has a more perfect complexion than ever and gee! turning $10,000 into $70,000 is so easy if you know bankers.

Then Maharis coming on to Baker...The end seems implausible = Miss Cold suddenly turned on by someone in a bookstore. No it doesn't work.

I will grudgingly give it 4 stars--I don't like the socially meaningful genre--my God we get it in both ears 26 hours a day as it is. I watch movies for entertainment. They could have expunged the PC stuff and it would have been a 10 times better. But we are talking Hollywood PC-ness and moral nanny is in its DNA.
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