Vassilis Marantos

Howard Hawks created another one good movie. It is not his best. It is a good one for sure, and I cannot understand why this film is so under-estimated. Rock Hudson is very good. He has a natural talent for such films. He makes people laugh without being silly or without destroying his serious image. Also Mrs Prentiss is very good. The way that she is trying to make Hudson fall for her, the way she speaks, shows that she is a natural comedian. The story is a complex one. Hudson works in a shop with fishing equipment. He is the best seller, and no-one can imagine that he can not fish, swim and that he also hates fishes. Until Prentiss come. His boss under her ideas send Hudson in a contest in lake, where he must show that he is the best. You may have good laughs, and this movie will not insult your intelligence like some of the new ones

It is my opinion that this film is the best film ever created in Greece. This a story of Greek female singer who is full of passion and despises any social or moral "must". She is living her life like nobody else. Until our anti-hero Stella meets her destiny in the face of Miltos, a man who will try anything in order to make her his. Of course, a passion can have only one tragic end. The direction of Michalis Cacoyiannis is superb. The stars Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Fountas and Alekos Alexandrakis are some of the best actors that the Greek cinema and theathre has created. Also the music is made by an Oscar winner composer, named Manos Hadjidakis, and it reflects all the emotions that the actors have. If you can not understand what Mediterranean passion means, see this film, and you will. SUPERB!!!

What a beautiful fairytale! Although, nobody can believe the basic story, this is an enjoyable film. Helen Nathanail, more beautiful than ever, stars as a guide for a group of tourist. There she meets Tomas Fritch, a handsome blonde man. They fall in love. What she does not know, that we do know from the fist moment, is that T.F is a prince who came in Greece for a formal visit. I know...I know...It sounds silly. But the couple is wonderful, the music of Vaggelis Papathanasiou and Giannis Markopoulos excellent, the naivity of the script can be easily forgotten when you see the chemistry that they do have on the screen. You may say that it is the Greek Roman Holiday, and that the role of A.Hepburn is played now from a male star. It's very good. Not perfect, because the next day you will not remember a thing from that film, but it is sweet and naive, as we should be sometimes.