One of my all time favorites.

Nice effects though.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Rock Hudson plays Robert Talbot, a rich American who owns a villa in Italy. Sadly, he only spends a month there every year...and his sexy girlfriend (Gina Lollobrigida) is waiting there for him each September. This year, however, he decides to change things up and shows up in July...and finds that his trusted servant (Walter Slezak) is running the place like an upscale hotel!! And, the girlfriend is helping him in this endeavor!While you'd expect Robert to toss everyone out on their butts, he inexplicably decides, at least for now, to allow the party of young ladies to stay. However, this severely impacts his sex life, as he and his girlfriend definitely have an understanding and she is really more a mistress. Oddly, however, Robert is really worried about the young ladies, as he knows the young American men pursuing them are up to no good...probably because HE is up to no good!This is a nice little comedy. Sure, it doesn't make a lot of sense but it is enjoyable and well worth seeing. Plus, it's nice seeing Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee in support.

Robert (Rock Hudson) is a successful businessman by any 1961 standards. He actually has a villa in Italy that he only visits in September and hires a caretaker for the rest of the year. Oh, but what a yearly vacation, as he sees his longtime love, Lisa (Gina Lollobrigida) for an intense rendezvous. Man, he is in for surprises when he decides to visit in July! First, Lisa has grown tired of waiting for a ring and is going to marry a Brit named Spenser. She's trying on her wedding gown when she realizes Rob is in the country. Far from chewing him out, she soon agrees to meet him, leaving her fiancé in the lurch. Then, the caretaker of Robert's villa has seen an opportunity to make improvements while the American is away. Thus, he has rented out the villa as a hotel and a group of American college age gals like Sandy (Sandra Dee) are staying there with their chaperone. Wow, does this Maurice (Walter Slezak) have to do some quick thinking. Initially changing signs does not hide the secret for long. As a result, Robert is very angry when he realizes he WILL NOT be alone with Lisa. Soon, too, some college guys including Tony (Bobby Darin) come camping on the beach in front of the hotel and definitely like the looks of the coeds. How will romance blossom at a time when no one gets the chance to have a tete a tete? This funny movie has great charms for the romcom fans of the world. Hudson, of course, is always a delight, with his terrific looks, wit and charm. Lollobrigida, now mostly forgotten, is likewise mirthful and beautiful. Dee and Darin, great partners on the screen, really fell in love on the set and married soon after the film wrapped. All of the supporting cast, the sensational scenery, the flattering costumes, the darling script and the zestful direction deserve high praise as well. But, BEWARE romcom fans. As you watch this delightful flick, you may start crying as you realize Hollywood has abandoned movie making like this. Could anyone in power PLEASE START A PROTEST and urge Tinseltown to bring back the romantic comedy?

Any film with Walter Slezak is a potentially interesting movie, and "Come September" with its attractive photography and clever film editing, is no exception. In this one, Slezak has an opportunity to speak Italian. In one of the film's cleverest sequences, he mistranslates Rock's protestations to the police. His Italian is fluent but still spoken with his characteristic German accent. And as usual, he is a sheer delight. Bobby Darin is much less amusing. In fact, he's as boorish as usual. I wasn't enamored of the strident Miss Dee either, but Lollo is exquisitely clothed and dishabille. Good old Rock looks appropriately confused, but there's some clever directorial work at the climax in which Rock and the police gesticulate on one side of the train window to the silently mouthing Lollo on the other!

I came to this picture expecting to only skip through parts of it.I had watched Kevin Spacey's "Beyond the Sea." That sent me to seek out Dodd Darin's book about his parents, Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee. This autobio/bio (Dream Lovers:The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee), by the way, turned out to be one of the best written and compelling bios ever. Dodd Darin came across as so obviously a person of very high integrity and he wrote about his life and his parents with a very strong priority on finding and presenting the truth. So different from the many bs-laden, so-called autobiographys with all of their "composite characters" (code for I'm lying)littering the market.And then that book led me to want to watch "Come September." It was on this picture that Darin and Dee first met. It was also Bobby Darin's first role.So I was mainly curious to get insight about them and was prepared and expected to have to wade through a mostly boring comedy to do so.But, surprise on me, "Come September" turned out to be Terrific! Fantastic! Wonderful! The script was very sharp and clever. There were tons of extremely witty lines. The laughs just kept coming. Quite a few were of the laugh out loud variety.The film had great timing. It just kept zipping along delivering the entertainment big-time scene after scene.The casting was superb. Every part was maximized by the respective actor. Walter Slezak was excellent. He contributed a lot to the overall warmth and good-natured tone of the film. Gina Lollobrigida was stunningly beautiful. The cinematography of Italy was stunningly beautiful. This is just a truly first-rate film. Well worth seeing and well worth adding to a film library. It has also made me enthusiastic to search out other work by its very talented director, Robert Mulligan and its equally excellent screenwriter, Stanley Shapiro.