Marriage on the Rocks

Three times to Mexico is the title of an American comedy distributed by WB from the year 1965. It is a Sinatra Enterprise AC production in Technicolor and Panavision.

Action

Dan Edwards has an advertising agency, is married to Valerie and has two children: a 18- year-old daughter Tracy and David as cheeky youngest member of the family. With the extended family is the animating Ernie Brewer, Dan's business partner and Valerie's former boyfriend. The marriage of the two has become a habit. Valerie would like to get a divorce because her husband was too little care of her in the last years. Good friends hit them a second honeymoon to Mexico before, but begin the turbulent confusion.

While Valerie is happy because her hubby finally has time for it, but it also comes back to a dispute. An overeager stranger caregivers believes he must help and suddenly the pair - also due to lack of knowledge of the Mexican language - but now divorced. This is the two now again not quite. They immediately want to restore the old state. But before that Dan has once again urgently home to lead can not be postponed negotiations with an important client. The wedding preparations are expected to start before, because on the next day he wants to be back. But Dan has to do longer than expected and sends Ernie as a mediator with the order to move the wedding date and to console Valerie now.

But now everything runs wrong. This time, the aforementioned language deficits ensure that suddenly Valerie and Ernie are married to each other. Of course wants the immediately disconnect from her again, but Valerie strike. She is a little upset, her Dan is now quietly braise something. The shot backfires: The new bachelor life has become so right after Dan's taste, he has always secretly envied Ernie so in recent years. Henceforth, he enjoys the freedom and no longer cares about women and children. Finally fate has the solution. As a result, the second honeymoon Valerie is pregnant, and Dan is a father again. This means after the former Hollywood Codex: Marriage. So a third trip to Mexico must regulate the formalities for now.

Background

Twelve years before this film Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra were already in Eternity together in front of the camera. The film was a comeback after a long Sinatras artistic break. For his portrayal of Frank Sinatra won an Oscar, while also nominated Deborah Kerr missed out.

Reviews

" Routine maintenance with tangles, role changes and reconciliation to Hollywood standards. "

Source

  • Illustrated Movie Set No. S 7247, Munich
1965 in film Screenplay William H. Daniels Film score Nelson Riddle Hermione Baddeley
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