The Grass Is Greener (1960)

Thanks for the memories!

Absolutely Brilliant!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Victor (Cary Grant) and Hillary Rhyall (Deborah Kerr) are a struggling British earl and wife who needs money for their vast estates. They open it up to tourists. Charles Delacro (Robert Mitchum) is a wealthy oil tycoon visitor who takes a liking to Hillary. They start going off together. Hattie Durant (Jean Simmons) is her talkative best friend. Victor and Hattie schemes up a get together.The tone is a little too light. It's hard to get into the infidelity seriously. There is a mismatch of style. It would work better if we could somehow laugh at Cary Grant's character. He's mister nice guy and I don't really get the humor in the cheating. It probably would work better as a serious drama, but I just don't know why any of this would be funny.

Odd little movie about infidelity in the 50s. It begins with the 50's most leaden homage to heteronormativity; a collage of adorable infants under the credits. I was rolling my eyes. The 50s are a tiresome heap of propaganda for reproduction and the family; resulting in dozens of rotten on-screen performances by insufferable moppets (An Affair to Remember, The Man who Knew Too Much, Picnic, etc.). But it eventually becomes a droll, sort of dirty (though very polite) piece about getting a little on the side (in 1956!!). The whole thing is too slight for the overamped starpower they've cast. By the time Cary Grant is striding into a gun duel, you might even conclude as I did, 'Wow, even Grant is miscast here.' Jean Simmons, playing a bimbo, is slumming. And she wears some hideous outfits that even Endora on Bewitched might've said No to.

Being a huge Deborah Kerr fan and a minor Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons fan I looked very much forward to watching this movie. My expectations were not disappointed! I had a lot of fun! The great dialogs as well as the actors managed to crack me up several times. Cary Grant is perfect typecasting. He has to deal with his beloved wife's infidelity. Mitchum and Kerr are rather unusual compared to their previous roles. He is very charming and straight-forward. When he sees something he wants, he takes it. She is truly funny! They have a great chemistry and you can tell that they were good friends in real life. But pay also special attention to Jean Simmons as the gin-drinking, all-knowing Hattie. She is hilarious! All together , the movie is great fun! Very British and very 50s/60s!

This adult drawing room comedy is a bit of fluff. Light and inconsequential but funny. Deborah Kerr is excellent in her role as the bored and under appreciated wife of an English aristocrat, Cary Grant. They are struggling to keep the family estate intact by charging for guided tours. Can one really be bored with Cary Grant? Mitchum is the rich, virile American tourist who sweeps her off her feet. Jean Simmons plays the beautiful but rather ditsy friend of Kerr. Kerr tells her, "You can't play Scrabble, not with adults". The mink coat scene is worth watching as is the fishing scene. America versus England with a happy ending.