Tunnel of Love, the

This movie is deffinately not one of Doris Day's Best. Doris Day plays a sweet and innocent lady who wants to have a baby but they keep trying and can't have one so they contact the Rock-A-Bye Adoption Agency. Well the Investigator comes to the house at a bad time. Doris's husband Richard Widmark is chasing a mouse. And the playboy next Door. Gig Young is over and starts making advances towards her. Well in a few minnutes she is starting to leave when Doris and Gig Youngs wife come in and they see what is happening. Well Doris talks to Richard but she can't find out anything and the adoption agency says she must be going. Then Gig convinces Richard to lay back a little bit and gives him some tranquilizers. The next thing we know Richard is riding in his car with the Adoption agency. Then he falls asleep and she drives him to a hotel. The next morning he finds himself in a hotel. Well he hides the fact from his wife. Then they get a call from Rock-A-Bye and they say they have a baby for them. Well when Doris sees it she thinks it looks to much like Richard. Well everybody thinks that and one day Doris sends Richards mother a letter and Richards mother sends her a pic of Richard when he was a baby. And she shows it to Richard and he says when did you have that pic of the baby taken. And she says Ha I knew it this is a picture of you when you were little. Well the movie ends well.

Married couple, Doris Day and Richard Widmark want to adopt a baby and of course they have been trying the natural way too. They have wonderful neighbors Gig Young and, who have children of their own currently in camp and one expected. The lady from the Rock-A-Bye Foundation comes around the neighborhood to investigate the parents-to-be. She must ask the neighbors their references of Doris and Richard. Now Richard goes to the front door, not knowing that the investigator is at the front door. he is in his underwear and chasing a mouse with a liquor bottle in his hand. Not a very good impression to start with. What else could happen to mortify Doris Day who is being so naturally proper and decent and yet her husband is not...plenty can happen. Cute film! Directed by dancer/actor/singer Gene Kelly. Nice realistic sets.

I like Richard Widmark, and absolutely love his movies. I have yet to see a "bad" one, or one I did not like. However, the part in this movie was far too lightweight for him. He's much too good of an actor to be in such of a role. He's best in tough-guy parts. He always fits those like a glove. This film, which is about a couple's desire to have children, doesn't do him justice. He was miscast in this part. Doris Day is sweet and lovely, as usual, while Gig Young is totally annoying. His part could have been deleted completely. The story itself is pretty good, but as I said before, it could have been better.