Do Not Disturb (1965)

• Year: 1965
• Released: 22 Dec 1965
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059112/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/do_not_disturb
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, French
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Runtime: 102 min
• Writer: Milt Rosen, Richard L. Breen, William Fairchild
• Director: Ralph Levy
• Cast: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley
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5.8/10

Do Not Disturb Storyline

American couple Mike (Rod Taylor) and Janet Harper (Doris Day) move to England for Mike’s work at his company which deals in wool textiles and wool fashions. Mike wants them to live in a flat in the heart of London, but Janet, who is not a big-city girl, finds them a house to rent in Kent, 30 miles outside London, meaning that Mike must commute to town by train. This isn’t ideal for Mike, who, for convenience, often stays in one of the company’s flats in town rather than going home; this makes Janet feel even more neglected. Janet believes Mike may be taking his neglect to the next level by having an affair with his secretary-quickly-turned-assistant, Claire Hackett (Maura McGiveney). Janet’s beliefs are fuelled in part by the Harpers’ busybody landlady, Vanessa Courtwright (Hermione Baddeley), who thinks that Janet can play Mike’s game by entering into her own affair–imaginary or real. It has the potential to be real with the arrival on the scene of Frenchman Paul Bellari (Sergio Fantoni), an antiques dealer and decorator Janet hires to decorate the house. Although neither Mike nor Janet had any initial thoughts of cheating on the other, Claire and Paul might have different thoughts, especially when Claire with Mike, and Paul with Janet, are thrown in to one compromising position after another, any of which could potentially break up the Harpers’ marriage.—Huggo

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Do Not Disturb Movie Reviews

Don’t be disturbed by the formula. There’s plenty to enjoy.

With the end of her Universal cycle of films with Rock Hudson, Doris Day moved on to other partners, and for two films, she had Rod Taylor, who when compared to Hudson, Cary Grant and James Garner, seems perhaps a bit to Macho and not romantic enough. For at least “Do Not Disturb”, he’s a serious-minded businessman who has moved to England and brought Doris along. The first part of the film seems like the film will focus on the ability of Americans to adapt to foreign customs, but for the second half of the film, it’s a sex farcw set in France.

When first seen, Doris is trying to understand the British currency system, and then learns that driving on the American side of the road is not the way to do it in the English countryside. Doris’s love of animals has her cuddling a cute fox (rescued from a hunt) and encouraging a hungry goat to nosh elsewhere then on the country home plants within the house. Doris has desire to find an antique dining set takes her to Paris where she ends up being the life of the streets thanks to too much champagne and the attentions of Sergio Fantoni.

She ends up at a swank party thrown by “Hogan’s Heroes” actor Leon Askin where, desperate to try to find her husband to explain the situation, ends up stealing the scene thanks to a glittery gold gown, initially covered by a long white coat with a gold lining exactly like the dress. It is obvious that the misunderstandings between husband and wife will be resolved in time, and many amusing situations occur.

As enjoyable as this is, it basically is two plots rolled into one film, wasting Hermione Baddely, decked out in chick fashions as the owner of the house Taylor rents. There’s also veteran actor Reginald Gardiner as Taylor’s business associate who has warned him that wives aren’t welcome at certain business social events. The film tries too hard to capture the mid-60s subculture and in its desperation to look cool reflects on how uncool it really is. Doris hadn’t hit the bottom of the barrel in scripts yet, but the dive would soon lead to an empty pool.

Routine

DO NOT DISTURB has been hastily conceived as a star vehicle for the ever-frothy Doris Day, playing a wife whose love has gone out of her marriage to hard-working husband Rod Taylor. She decides to try to win his heart back by pretending to embark on a passionate affair, but things don’t exactly go according to plan…

The whole film is designed to show off Day at her quick-thinking best, to show off her comedic skills as she goes from one situation to the next. I have to say that, while I like Day (in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, for example), her performance soon started to grate on me here. The absolute pits is the scene where she gets drunk; I hate these old comedies where women get drunk and act stupid, because they’re just over the top and embarrassing. There were similar moments in a lot of Audrey Hepburn movies.

Still, DO NOT DISTURB isn’t too bad, and as a light-hearted comedy you can enjoy it if you don’t expect too much from the premise. Taylor is a delight as the foil to Day’s wit, and a supporting cast do their best with the material they’re given.

Too much bickering, not enough romantic comedy

Despite a cute–if not exactly fresh–opening, “Do Not Disturb” immediately starts to disintegrate. Why? I think it’s all in the script, which is second-rate. The movie pairs Doris Day with handsome, adept Rod Taylor, but gives them no scenes together as man and wife that make you care about their union (they’re usually fighting with each other over the telephone). This is important to note because when Doris starts (innocently) dallying with a Frenchman, there’s nothing at stake for her–or for her marriage. Some of Day’s double-takes are funny, and the madcap finish is delightfully screwball, but there’s a huge chunk of movie in between these scenes that goes absolutely flat. The plot has an American couple moving to the English countryside, and the portrayal of the Britishers is ridiculous and corny. Towards the end, as Doris is walking through a lobby full of men and women, try spotting Raquel Welch in one of her very first show business jobs. ** from ****