Cute Movie

Hi: You can obtain a DVD-R from www.robertsvideos.com under the USA title 'The Public Eye'. It's a very nice transfer. Unfortunately, the aspect ratio is full screen and not the original letterbox 2.35:1 format as it was shown in cinemas. However this is a small price to pay as it is virtually impossible to obtain a copy on VHS. If it ever gets a DVD release hopefully it will be in widescreen format. I love this movie as I used to live in London in the early 1970s.

I love this movie and have always liked Mia. Though having heard her description as anemic looking, I personally love her slight awkwardness and delicate persona strongly identifying with her character in this film; eleven on a bus, her attire, giving herself a less tacky name and the nose ring she received. A hippy in my youth, I married a well-to-do business man and also experienced attending similar parties with his social group that made me feel uncomfortable. Though it was never said I sometimes wondered how many thought he married beneath his station - the same comment Charles's mother made. I love Belinda's outlook that the Joys must continue or the Marriage won't, in other words, efforts must be made by both parties. I find Topol very appealing in the part, hungry all the time and love the chemistry he silently shares with Mia on their many walks. I've read that Peter Sellers would have done a better job but I'm glad he was not used here. And though it was instantly seen that Belinda and Julian were of the same thinking, I was glad she gave Charles another chance. Beautiful music throughout enhances the romance aspects.