The Tunnel of Love (1958) - After watching
Pickup on South Street, I wanted to see another Richard Widmark movie, so I decided to pick a comedy that showed a different side of him.
August 'Augie' Poole, (Richard Widmark), and his wife Isolde, (Doris Day), have been unsuccessfully trying to have a baby, so they go to the Rock-a-Bye adoption agency to try to adopt a baby. Their neighbors Dick and Alice Pepper, (Gig Young and Elisabeth Fraser), have three children and another one on the way, however Dick criticizes Augie for being too serious, and even encourages him to cheat on his wife. Through a series of mishaps and miscommunications, Augie ends up taking Estelle Novick, (Gia Scala), the agent from the Rock-a-Bye adoption agency to dinner, and he wakes up alone in a hotel room the next morning. Months later, when the adoption agency tells the Pooles that they are getting a baby, the situation gets even more complicated when they begin to suspect that the baby is Augie's child.
This movie is predictable, as most romantic-comedies are, but it's a fun movie. It's a nice change of pace for Widmark, and I liked him in a lighter role. He had nice chemistry with Doris Day, but not quite as good as her chemistry with either Rock Hudson or James Garner.
This is not the best movie for either of the two stars, or the best rom-com, but it's a nice, light movie that has some fun scenes and funny lines that make it worth watching.