Two and Two Make Six

Given the pedigree of the writer it is rather surprising that this film is so unappealing,maybe its because George Chakitis s character is so obnoxious. Odd characters pop up bur are unable to enliven this.

Flush with with having just won an Oscar, cameramen Freddie Francis got his first chance to direct. Soon typecast as a maker of horror films he however started with this 'saucy' little youth comedy shot on location in which a blossoming young Janette Scott wore leather and yank leading man George Chakiris claimed to be Canadian.

Eccentric locals are played by Athene Seyler as a dotty old aunt who quotes John Gay and reads 'Lady Chatterly' and Malcolm Keen as a drunken old thespian who recites Shakespeare.

Loved seeing these old British movies on Talking Pictures TV, and this is up there with the best. Never a smash at the time apparently, but reminiscing never hurt anyone. Exciting motorcycle action scenes at the beginning, and comedic plot turns, keep the viewer hooked. Stellar performance from Janette Scott holds the whole thing together. Recommended.

American playing Canadian military rogue George Chakiris and British mama's boy Alfred Lynch ride motorcycles and for some reason aren't content with the gorgeous girls they're with, and each has a problem most men would die for...

Because of a pivotal mix-up in a hurried rush to leave an English diner, they wind up with each other's girls...

Chakiris, a womanizing airman on the run after striking an officer, is with good/honest blonde Janette Scott, who couldn't be cuter until brunette bombshell Jocelyn Lane was cast, now saddled with Scott's whiny fella, Brit actor Lynch...

Meanwhile both makeshift/contrasting couples... not really GIRL SWAPPERS since it was all an accident to begin with... embark on their own dual-riding, British-rural adventures, and neither are very exciting...

But TWO AND TWO MAKE SIX is really an exploitation male fantasy having the perfect girl right under their nose, or noses, despite being upturned while the dames... despite Chakiris riding his WEST SIDE STORY Oscar win and a handsome enough lad... are way too hot for the story, and the dudes, but absolutely perfect for the viewer.

Jocelyn Lane and Janette Scott didn't need Chakiris and the other actor. A movie just about the two girls would have been fine. No actress today can match Lane in her prime for sexiness, seductive powers and beauty.