FATHER'S LITTLE DIVIDEND, a comedy for adults, and of adult fun, requires a bit of life experience so that it may be enjoyed. Tracy has a hot woman who's apparently striving to look like a modest housewife; he feels in his veins rushing the torrents of lustful, incandescent conjugal desire and finds this wife of his to be very stimulating. Tracy's dreams and longings for conjugal love in exotic locations are disintegrated by his daughter's going to have a baby.
The comedy of libidinousness begins with the horny daddy Tracy's amorous advances mildly rejected by his wife. His dreams of sexual happiness are ruined. A young family's life is filmed through a grumpy oldster's eyes. Brass' LA CHIAVE will be the reversed FATHER'S LITTLE DIVIDEND—there you see another lustful oldster craving for conjugal sex.
Tracy, frustrated by wife in his love initiatives, is praised by daughter for his discretion and self—effacement. Grandpa Tracy makes here one of the best comedy roles in the American cinema; he had, I believe, the age, the temperament and the experience required (--we would not attribute wisdom to this fabulous drunk--). Joan Bennett, a fine piece of ass, plays Tracy's wife; she looks, of course, a bit sophisticated for the woman of a blue collar. Tracy will be _asexuated, castrated by the familial event of his daughter's having a son. This poor oldster is deprived of sexuality; there are hints that he enjoys soccer—but age deprives him of that, too. Ya see, there's even a certain _plentifulness in Minelli's comic, something realist and down—to—earth (--only imagine how corny such a subject could have made any comedy --), and daddy Tracy seemed to enjoy his role; stylistically, this Tracy/ Bennett/ Taylor comedy is very achieved—competent, discreet and inspired direction.
The comedy of libidinousness begins with the horny daddy Tracy's amorous advances mildly rejected by his wife. His dreams of sexual happiness are ruined. A young family's life is filmed through a grumpy oldster's eyes. Brass' LA CHIAVE will be the reversed FATHER'S LITTLE DIVIDEND—there you see another lustful oldster craving for conjugal sex.
Tracy, frustrated by wife in his love initiatives, is praised by daughter for his discretion and self—effacement. Grandpa Tracy makes here one of the best comedy roles in the American cinema; he had, I believe, the age, the temperament and the experience required (--we would not attribute wisdom to this fabulous drunk--). Joan Bennett, a fine piece of ass, plays Tracy's wife; she looks, of course, a bit sophisticated for the woman of a blue collar. Tracy will be _asexuated, castrated by the familial event of his daughter's having a son. This poor oldster is deprived of sexuality; there are hints that he enjoys soccer—but age deprives him of that, too. Ya see, there's even a certain _plentifulness in Minelli's comic, something realist and down—to—earth (--only imagine how corny such a subject could have made any comedy --), and daddy Tracy seemed to enjoy his role; stylistically, this Tracy/ Bennett/ Taylor comedy is very achieved—competent, discreet and inspired direction.