As Subtle as Reefer Madness (spoilers)

This film is as subtle as Reefer Madness and just as absurd. More garbage from the waste management truck of Blake Edwards. Between the self-rightous father, Charles Bickford, and the sanctimonious busy body, Jack Klugman, there was lttle for Jack Lemmon, and the adorable Lee Remick, to do, except commit suicide. Everything about the movie reeks of the stupidity of the 1950s. Remick won't drink because she is breast feeding her baby, and of course Lemmon badgers her into getting drunk. How awful. Why not just fill the baby bottle with bourbon, let her get smashed in her crib, and eliminate the middle man? Works for me. It must be said that Blake Edwards was one of the most over-rated dirctors of the last part of the 20th Century. He was incapable of making any point, comedy, drama, tragedy, with anything but a sledge hammer. His That's Life, also with Jack Lemmon, was full of a racist sub-text, which was an accurate reflection of Blake Edward's own values. (Referring to the use of the black house-man and his black wife shown as loyal and supportive darkies, as sychophantic as house nggerz before the Civil War.)