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    Caprice (1967)

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    The later movies of Doris Day now look like period artefacts: here she plays Patricia Foster – an agent (“The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Cream”) working for an international cosmetics company run by Jack Kruschen – in a confection co-produced by her then-husband, Martin Melcher.

    Witty director Frank Tashlin shows his usual deft hand with a daft plot and is skilled in getting the most out of Leon Shamroy’s cinematography, despite Day’s seeming insistence that her close-ups were filmed through multi-layered gauze.

    Day’s co-star is a quaintly-cast Richard Harris, in the same year he made Camelot, whose own insistence on wearing blue eye shadow in this particular context effectively sabotages his right to be taken seriously, and, anyway, comedy isn’t exactly his forte.

    Ray Walston and Michael J Pollard bring some effortless entertainment to the proceedings but, frankly, this is best viewed as a 1960s period piece, not quite as chic and as modish as it thinks it is, but by no means negligible, either.

    Patricia Foster
    Doris Day
    Christopher White
    Richard Harris
    Stuart Clancy
    Ray Walston
    Matthew Cutter
    Jack Kruschen
    Sir Jason Fox
    Edward Mulhare
    Madame Piasco
    Lilia Skala
    Su Ling
    Irene Tsu
    Inspector Kapinsky
    Larry D Mann
    Auber
    Maurice Marsac
    Butler
    Michael Romanoff
    Mandy
    Lisa Seagram
    Barney
    Michael J Pollard

    Director
    Frank Tashlin

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