Americans Mike (Taylor) and Janet (Day) Harper recently moved to England for Mike's job. He is an executive at a wool textile company. The office is in London and the company has an apartment, but Janet falls in love with a home in the country and convinces Mike to rent it. He takes the train in to work and for convenience sake, sometimes stays at the flat in the city. The landlady Vanessa Courtwright (Baddeley) believes Mike is having an affair with his secretary Claire Hackett (McGiveney), who seems to be taking over Janet's role in his life.
Vanessa starts sending Janet flowers to make Mike jealous. They succeed when Janet receives flowers from antiques dealer Paul Bellari (Fantoni), who Janet hires to redecorate the house. With their anniversary coming up, can Mike and Janet stay together or will their potential affairs tear the relationship apart?
The story is based on a play by William Fairchild, with a screenplay by Milt Rosen and Richard Breen. The film changes tone throughout. The film takes a bit to get into. Doris Day's character is grating at first and I didn't really like her until she met Sergio Fantoni's character and loosened up a bit. She is really charming after that point and gets some fun comedy moments.
This is the first two collaborations between Day and Rod Taylor (they followed it up with The Glass Bottom Boat in 1966). They are fine together. The cast as a whole is fine, but you don't feel the fun of the film and performances until Day's Janet goes to France. From there the film just gets better.
Day performed the title song and also sings during the film, as she does in all of her films.
Not bad, but also not great.
Do Not Disturb (1965) 102 minutes
Director: Ralph Levy
Starring: Doris Day as Janet Harper
Rod Taylor as Mike Harper
Hermione Baddeley as Vanessa Courtwright
Sergio Fantoni as Paul Bellari
Reginald Gardiner as George Simmons
Maura McGiveney as Claire Hackett
Aram Katcher as Culkos
Leon Askin as Willie Langsdorf
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