Review of Arabella

Virna Lisi, Terry Thomas, Margaret Rutherford, James Fox....and yet "Arabella" is almost completely forgotten today. If you do manage to see it, you'll probably understand why: it's not very funny, and it doesn't make a lot of sense, either. The full-figured, healthy-looking Lisi is extremely sexy no matter what she wears or how she styles her hair, but Thomas mugs (in multiple roles) to little effect, and Rutherford is given practically nothing to do until the last 10 minutes. The only remotely amusing section of the movie is the one with a young Giancarlo Giannini pretending to be gay so that his father will continue trying to "reform" him by throwing beautiful women at his feet! Even Ennio Morricone's score is forgettable. *1/2 out of 4.