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• DARLING MOVIE COMEDY SCENES FULL

The rest of Darling Lili is on a lesser plain. Fans of Rock Hudson and of Julie Andrews will like this and her singing is divine. Film buffs will recognize some similarity to The Firefly and the British classic Dark Journey so if you know those films you know how this one ends. I mean really, this guy should never have been in the RFC, the comedy which is good is severely out of place. One of the characters is Lance Percival playing a drunken pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. Darling Lili lurches back and forth from cloak and dagger espionage to slapstick comedy in the extreme and it's an uncomfortable ride in the process. Her assignment which she accepts with gusto is to get involved with American air ace Rock Hudson and learn some military secrets. Wholesome Julie Andrews is a popular entertainer of the era, singing for the troops on the western front. Would that the score was attached to a better story. More traditional World War I era songs are also used, no doubt all in the public domain by 1970. The original songs are integrated so well into the film that they fit perfectly in the era. That one is an incredibly beautiful number that Julie Andrews sings perfectly. Two of the three nominations were in the music field for best overall score and to Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer for the song Whistling In The Dark.

Set in the era of World War I, Darling Lili's best asset is its music.

DARLING MOVIE COMEDY SCENES FULL

Whatever else Darling Lili is it's a full market value musical film. They were getting just too expensive to make with all the talent that used to be under contract to a studio now charging full market value for services. Recognized with three Oscar nominations Darling Lili was a big flop at the time and helped seal the fate of big budget musicals and Julie Andrews's career in them. Overall, uneven but Darling Lili a decent film and is much better than it's made out to be, though it's somewhat easy to see why it was a flop. The script is intelligent with some snappy moments, it didn't feel that talky, and the story at least has some entertainment value despite moments being muddled and the spy thriller, drama and musical themes being far more convincing than the comedy and romance ones. The script and the story aren't great but they're not disastrous either. Much has been said about the hauntingly beautiful Whistling Away the Dark, how Andrews sings it(like an angel and with so much nuance and emotion) and how it's staged and for good reason, simply put it's a beautiful song that is beautifully sung and beautifully staged.

The music is distinctive Henry Mancini, it fits the film adeptly and is a very memorable score and one you can re-visit more than once. The film looks gorgeous, the highlights being the marvellously shot aerial dogfight sequences and the visuals that accompany the song Whistling Away the Dark. Lance Percival shines also in possibly his best film role and one of his best performances. Julie Andrews though is great though, her acting and presence are charming and she as ever sings like an angel. It is overlong, the comedy/slapstick scenes at times feel out of place and compared to the other themes that make up the film at odds with the rest of the film, the film can get muddled, the film can drag and Rock Hudson while likable is rather stiff- compared to his usual performances- and doesn't have the strongest of chemistrys with Julie Andrews(though not without its moments). Not great, uneven is a good way to describe it, but it is much better than its reputation. Darling Lili may have been a major flop at the time, but to me it is not a bad film.