This movie is the message on political lob corruption as done in 1961 Wardrobe with a 1930's setting. While it is not perfect, Wirt Williams only novel brought to the screen a story of a woman being appointed Governor of a state in the 1930's. She does not even have to run for office, much like Gerald Ford's appointment to Vice- President in 1974. Of course this setting is not anywhere near as exciting as the first elected woman to the office -Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross (November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977) was an American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927.
Still, it combines the light humor of Dean Martin as Bo Gillis who runs and is elected to the office with the help of his friend Sylvester Marin (Wilfred Hyde White)who has so many people in his pocket that Bo can not even throw his election off by eloping with Ada, a Hooker, who just gave him the 3 best weeks of their lives (I guess 3 weeks with Hayward would be pretty good back in the day).
Martin Balsam heads up a supporting cast with more UN-credited than credited cast members. After the election Bo begins to realize that Marin got him elected simply to sign bills and make Marin and friends rich at the expense of the taxpayers (this sounds to close to home since the 1980's nationally). Martin's Bo, a simple man who plays guitar and gets elected suddenly realizes he has been took because of his friend and Ada who is the main star here. It is Ada who has to do the heavy lifting after Marin try's to kill Bo with a car bomb.
Ada is not your average hooker. She gets quite a ways in proposing stopping Marin, though it does take Bo to get her over the top. Overall this is a good film from MGM which fell a bit short of being a great film. Daniel Mann who directed Our Man Flint for James Coburn is behind the camera for this one. Arthur Sheekman who worked on the script for Martin's "Some Come Running" is on this script too which explains Martin's character fitting him like the proverbial glove. Recently caught this one on TCM.
Still, it combines the light humor of Dean Martin as Bo Gillis who runs and is elected to the office with the help of his friend Sylvester Marin (Wilfred Hyde White)who has so many people in his pocket that Bo can not even throw his election off by eloping with Ada, a Hooker, who just gave him the 3 best weeks of their lives (I guess 3 weeks with Hayward would be pretty good back in the day).
Martin Balsam heads up a supporting cast with more UN-credited than credited cast members. After the election Bo begins to realize that Marin got him elected simply to sign bills and make Marin and friends rich at the expense of the taxpayers (this sounds to close to home since the 1980's nationally). Martin's Bo, a simple man who plays guitar and gets elected suddenly realizes he has been took because of his friend and Ada who is the main star here. It is Ada who has to do the heavy lifting after Marin try's to kill Bo with a car bomb.
Ada is not your average hooker. She gets quite a ways in proposing stopping Marin, though it does take Bo to get her over the top. Overall this is a good film from MGM which fell a bit short of being a great film. Daniel Mann who directed Our Man Flint for James Coburn is behind the camera for this one. Arthur Sheekman who worked on the script for Martin's "Some Come Running" is on this script too which explains Martin's character fitting him like the proverbial glove. Recently caught this one on TCM.