Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Richard Chatten 'The Perfect Furlough' is two-thirds of the way through before it finally stops wasting our time and the romance we've been anticipating all along between real-life lovebirds Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh finally blooms; although there are still the usual irksome misunderstandings to be surmounted before the final clinch.Two decades after this film Blake Edwards returned to glossy sex farce availing himself of the far more relaxed censorship of the seventies, eighties and nineties, but with not much more stimulating results. Shot in colour & 'scope to compensate for the fact that although set in Paris, the production never leaves California; there's the usual "ooh la la" nonsense about how romantic Paris is, and plenty of talk about sex, but none actually takes place during the film's running time, and most of the narrative tension derives from the film's attempts to sound raunchy while still adhering to Eisenhower-era censorship. When one of the characters is revealed to be pregnant the audience (but not the cast), for example, is already fully aware that the young lady was already safely married at the time of conception.Although given little to do, Elaine Stritch shines in the sort of role Eve Arden would have played in the forties.

weezeralfalfa The script of this light romantic comedy has lots of problems. First, the Colonel points to the Arctic Ocean on a map when describing the location of the 104 men suffering acute depression due to the long time(7 months) since they have had any female companionship. If true, it should be a job for the navy. If the radar installation is actually on one of the nearby Canadian islands, it should be manned by the Canadian military. If it is actually in northern Alaska, then things are OK. Second, why did it take 104 men to service this radar installation. If it is on land, I would think, say, half a dozen men would be adequate. Besides, most of the men seem to have little or nothing to do. Thus, the excuse that furloughs cannot be granted, because every man is needed all the time looks phony. I suspect the cost of transporting them out and back in is the real reason! The idea of one man going on a 3 week long date with a movie star to supposedly satisfy the desires of 103 lonely bored men for female companionship is simply absurd, and that is the basis for the rest of the film.Why would a married Sandra(Linda Crystal) or her husband agree to this arrangement? Sandra tries to come up with an excuse not to do it, but doesn't want to reveal, even to her agent, that she is married. Paul(Tony Curtis) seems to be having minimal fun on his supposed perfect furlough. He complains that he is always chaperoned and hounded. He has no freedom to be alone with Sandra. At a party, she danced with other men, but not him, even though her initial impression of him was very positive. They have spent little time in each other's company. Then, after several weeks, she tells him she's married.When the doctor was called to investigate Sandra's apparent cold or flu, he announces that her problem actually is that she is pregnant. Why would a doctor called to investigate a cold think to look for a pregnancy? How could he definitively determine this in 1958 just by a cursory examination, unless the pregnancy was well along, in which case, Paul couldn't possibly be the father. Vicki(Janet Leigh) is the victim of a false rumor that she also is pregnant, possibly also by Paul. Well, if so, this must have happened within the last couple of weeks, with Paul heavily guarded. Instead of denying the rumor, she agrees with it, in hopes that playboy Paul will agree to marry her, using this pregnancy as an excuse for the benefit of others. Of course, Paul will know it's phony and she will have to give up her career in the army.There is occasional humor here and there, but not enough to justify sitting through this.

bkoganbing In his memoirs Tony Curtis lists this as one of five films he would make with first wife Janet Leigh. As opposed to such dramatic fare as Houdini or a great comedy like Who Was That Lady, The Perfect Furlough is distinctly second rate. The film is also one of four Curtis did with Blake Edwards as director. Tony and Blake first teamed with a good dramatic film Mister Cory and then later in Operation Petticoat and The Great Race. All of those are better than The Perfect Furlough.The great military minds of the Pentagon are concerned about the morale of those Air Force guys stationed in the Arctic. All 104 men are performing a top security job at the North Pole so we can't furlough them all to get what they obviously need.So what's the answer as thought of by Colonel Les Tremayne. Get a willing movie star like Linda Cristal to go on a carefully chaperoned date in Paris with just one lucky airman chosen by lottery. The others will live vicariously through Curtis's good times. The operation to be supervised by Lieutenant Janet Leigh.Curtis is the base conniver and he connives his way into winning the lottery and the dream time with Cristal. It's one of those operations like you used to see on The Dating Game. Only Curtis does play for keeps and Leigh wishes he would play with her, officer/enlisted man rules of non-fraternization not withstanding.It's a dumb premise to start with. I mean Lee Marvin when his Dirty Dozen had completed training he took care of them in proper style before they went on their mission. But Marvin was an original thinker on these matters unlike those in the Pentagon in Cold War peacetime.Note some good performances by Elaine Stritch as Cristal's studio chaperon and Keenan Wynn as her controlling producer. But over all The Perfect Furlough is far from perfect.

moonspinner55 Another let-down for Tony Curtis fans. Here, he's an Army corporal stationed at an Arctic outpost who gets a Parisian furlough with sexy Argentine movie actress Linda Cristal, who is secretly pregnant. Would-be bedroom romp never does get saucy. Director Blake Edwards bides his time with his usual padding and gimmicks: slapstick brawls and frantic chases. This was one of six movies Curtis made with then-wife Janet Leigh, wasted here as a prim lieutenant. Despite lots of Hollywood gloss, these are grueling comic antics indeed. Interesting supporting cast, which includes Elaine Stritch and Keenan Wynn, is a minor compensation. * from ****