Sunday in New York [Blu-ray]

Director: Peter Tewksbury Peter Tewksbury

Overview

In this sexy comedy, an innocent, but attractive virgin heads off to find adventure in the Big Apple and winds up falling in love. The highly principled lass goes to the New York apartment of her airline pilot brother to escape her over-amorous fiance who is increasingly unwilling to wait until their wedding night. Her brother supports her decision to stay pure and tells her that men prefer to marry virgins. He then secretly makes new plans to spend a spicy weekend with his lover in another city. Unfortunately, he is called to work after he makes his plans and is unable to contact his girl friend to tell her. Meanwhile, his innocent sister, left alone in the apartment, discovers that her brother lives by a double standard. Enraged, she decides to become a swinger too and so boards a downtown bus where she encounters a handsome, worldly bachelor. They are both attracted to each other and spend a lazy Sunday sightseeing and falling in love. A heavy downpour leads the drenched couple to the pilots apartment where they dry off. It's all innocent enough, but when both the repentant fiance and the girl's brother show up it's comical chaos.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/19/2020
UPC:	0883929714476
Original Release:	1963
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:45:00
Sales rank:	6,846

Special Features

1080p High Definition; English SDH subtitles

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jane Fonda	Eileen Tyler
Cliff Robertson	Adam Tyler
Rod Taylor	Mike Mitchell / Adam Tyler
Robert Culp	Russ Wilson
Jo Morrow	Mona Harris
Peter Nero	Himself,Composer
Jim Backus	Flight Dispatcher

Technical Credits

Norman Krasna

Peter Tewksbury	Director
Norman Krasna	Screenwriter
Everett Freeman	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Sunday in New York is a rather routine early '60s sex comedy, albeit one that's a bit more frank than others of the period. Norman Krasna's screenplay deals quite openly with the issue of sex among singles: the double standard with the issue where men and women are concerned and the pressures that a young woman faced at the time. The openness is refreshing, even if many of the ideas are dated. Had Krasna provided sharper and funnier dialogue, Sunday might have ended up as a rather superior example of the genre, but here the writer lets the viewer down. Yes, there are amusing moments, but they tend to generate chuckles rather than real laughs. Peter Tewksbury's direction doesn't help; it's genial and professional, when what is needed is real imagination to kick things into high gear. This becomes especially clear in the last third of the screenplay, when the machinations that are part and parcel of the genre have set up a mistaken identity plot that should be much more amusing than it is. Don't blame the cast, for they give it their all. Rod Taylor is a bit stiff in places but fine, and Jane Fonda is quite good throughout. Cliff Robertson does very well, and in what could be described as the "Gig Young" role, Robert Culp boosts the energy level considerably. None of this -- nor Peter Nero's cool, jazzy score -- raises Sunday above the ordinary, but it does make it an enjoyable piece of fluff.