Standing Pat

Never Put It in Writing. Pat Boone doesn't sing in this picture, but it's awful anyway. Possibly because he tries to act.

He tries to act like an insurance man who gets word of a major promotion about five minutes too late--the twerp has just posted a sizzling letter of resignation. Can he get the letter back before it flies from Dublin to London? He rushes to the mailbox. "Sorry," says the mailman, "it's state property now." He tries to rob the mails. "Sorry," says a Dublin cop, "you can tell it to the judge." He cuts and runs to the airport. "Sorry," says the pilot of a chartered plane as it nose-dives at a hedgerow. "Never flew this plane before."

It's a paper chase, see, and it may well have them hollering for more on the summer-camp circuit. But customers with mature expectations will probably wonder how Dublin's Abbey Players, who take most of the supporting roles, were ever persuaded to mix good Irish spirits with such cheap fizz. Faith now, and what happens every time the Abbey people get their Irish up and a scene respectably started? Director Andrew Stone, a Hollywood type who seems to have no trouble standing Pat, summarily lowers the Boone.

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