Comedy

Romance

The Moon Is Blue

Otto Preminger Films

United Artists

United States of America

English

William Holden

David Niven

Maggie McNamara

Tom Tully

Dawn Addams

Fortunio Bonanova

Gregory Ratoff

Johannes Heesters

Hardy Krüger

Johanna Matz

F. Hugh Herbert

Otto Preminger

Ronald Sinclair

Nicolai Remisoff

Ernest Laszlo

Herschel Burke Gilbert

Don Loper

Edward G. Boyle

Louis Phillipi

Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes.

The Moon is Blue is one of those olde rom-coms that nowadays has the ability to baffle us as to how it caused such ripples in the movie world back in the day. But ripples it did stir, and all told it's a pretty effective study of manners, etiquette and sexual understandings.

Directed by Otto Preminger and based on F. Hugh Herbert's cheeky play of the film's title, it stars William Holden, David Niven and Maggie McNamara. Plot essentially revolves around McNamara holding onto her virginity as the male predators close in. If she holds firm she will of course snare the man she is meant to be with.

It's a bit talky and too mired in its stage origins at times, but there's a waspish deliberation about the humour that holds attention and the performances, in conjunction with Preminger's agile camera techniques, are well worth investment.

More curio than essential cinema, but enjoyable and rich with characterisations of worth. 7/10
The Moon is Blue is one of those olde rom-coms that nowadays has the ability to baffle us as to how it caused such ripples in the movie world back in the day. But ripples it did stir, and all told it's a pretty effective study of manners, etiquette and sexual understandings.

Directed by Otto Preminger and based on F. Hugh Herbert's cheeky play of the film's title, it stars William Holden, David Niven and Maggie McNamara. Plot essentially revolves around McNamara holding onto her virginity as the male predators close in. If she holds firm she will of course snare the man she is meant to be with.

It's a bit talky and too mired in its stage origins at times, but there's a waspish deliberation about the humour that holds attention and the performances, in conjunction with Preminger's agile camera techniques, are well worth investment.

More curio than essential cinema, but enjoyable and rich with characterisations of worth. 7/10

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Tom Tully

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