mrpeterrobertson

Well your viewers comment on this movie is troublesome. This viewer obviously takes this movie (and himself?) far too seriously. All you have to do is relex and enjoy the dichotomy of two different cultures colliding - and the Wasp looses, not the Greeks! And that is my only complaint but apart from that the movie is very funny indeed. And it's an interesting insight to the Greek culture which can be a bit over the top at time (the Greeks not the movies).

I first saw this film when it was released (in 1964) and it had a profound effect on me then, imagine my surprise when I saw it in the middle of the night on TV a few days ago and it hasn't lost any of it's freshness. Oliver Reed is brilliant, as he always was before he took to the bottle, and the idea of the girl turning the tables on the cock-sure man is executed magnificently. Furthermore the quote that I remember for forty years still rang true (Harry Andrews, a photographer, says "we're here to make memories" and Oliver Reed's reply "I thought we were here to make money"). People may laugh at Michale Winner now but this was god, very good. Even today.

The low star rating and the fact that in all the Video guide books this is a turkey (i.e. less than one star!) just proves that Americans cannot laugh at themselves. All my, European friends thought this was a great movie - all my American friends didn't. You have to look on it as the ultimate p***take of many countries (including England - Chevy Chase "Don't be silly darling, of course there's a toilet, the English go to the toilet, don't they?" - after looking everywhere in the hotel room "maybe they don't"). Although that joke says a lot about the comfort of London hotels it also says a lot about the cossetted Americans!