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First: New York never looked clean and never looked pretty. But, here it is displayed as a place a person from a bright pretty clean place (say, Colorado, right 'next to Nebraska') might come expecting glorious things. The movie shows a work place crowded with desks and windowless - those windows are for the executives behind doors. Now, we're talking.
Back in time we go, not to a New York City that never was, but to a time when everyone smoked cigarettes with impunity and women wore hats. Women were not eager to show that they were ready for some aggressive sex with coworkers; they preferred to think that men fell in love with them and wanted to marry them, not have sex when it was convenient. Yep. We're stepping into a time capsule.
Men slapped women on the bottom - and got away with it in the workplace. At one point, a married man in the office has tried to tear a woman's jacket off while either chasing her around a desk or trying to kiss her. We don't know because we don't see that. She is... indignant. And then, when a man impulsively grabs and kisses an underling from the secretarial pool, the viewer today can only scream 'That's SEXUAL assault!'
The right level of indignation should be somewhere in the middle. Men should get slapped more for any liberties they try to take, and women should snigger among themselves and to other coworkers about what jerks those guys are. Oafish Lotharios would become laughing stocks of the office.
A modern movie showing women on dates often has them acting with far more sexual aggression than these men displayed in the 50s. Where is the improvement? And who needs marriage anyway? the viewer wonders today. These 50s ladies seem to think unborn babies need married parents - huh? This movie smells like it's been wrapped in moral mothballs.
So quaint. All of it. I did feel a pang of nostalgia at the very end of the movie. Stephen Boyd and Hope Lange walk off into the bright New York sunshine, on streets that have been buffed clean by film crews. He immediately walks around her from her left side to her right side so that he can walk between her and the curb. That used to be manners!
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