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” Two To your Seesaw ” (1962, 119 minute) The movie type of a level play written by William Gibson (most memorable to own currently talking about “Brand new Miracle-worker”), this celebrities Robert Mitchum while the a middle-aged lawyer out of Nebraska who relocates so you’re able to Ny wanting to arrive at grips towards the impending separation and divorce of his partner off a dozen years, just who following match Shirley MacLaine, a more youthful Jewish do-be-dancer kook that have a heart from silver. Pretty good pretending with what are essentailly a-two-individual gamble (having short cameos because of the familiar sit-com confronts Elisabeth Fraser (“Sgt. Bilko”), Ken Berry (“Mayberry RFD”), and you can Ann Morgan Guibert (“The brand new Penis Van Dyke Reveal”), even if I might offer MacLaine the brand new edge right here (regardless if she did encourage myself out-of good svelter Sylvia Schnauser out-of “Vehicles 54, Where Will you be?” in looks and you may actions). There are a few stunning B&W location views of one’s very early sixties The big apple, however almost adequate–movie director Robert Wise did very little to open which gamble, thus most of it is talky scene after talky world during the one of two apartments. Cannot say it’s not well written, but there is however merely one thing discouraging regarding it (and it is not simply the conclude–on the halfway owing to, I first started that have a difficult time to get Mitchum’s profile. ). […]