AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

gridoon2018 As a production, "Caprice" is slick and colorful. As a film, it is muddled; the characters seems to be changing sides every five minutes or so, and the tone wavers clumsily from (relatively) serious spy thriller to slapstick comedy. Films like "Charade" have gotten that balance right, but "Caprice" misses the target. And at the risk of sounding unoriginal, I also have to point out that Richard Harris is miscast in the Cary Grant / Rock Hudson type of role. On the other hand, the film (which predates "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" by two years) does have a good ski chase, and one mind-bendingly "meta" sequence in which Doris Day goes to a movie theater to watch...."Caprice", with Doris Day and Richard Harris! ** out of 4.

Uriah43 While skiing an Interpol agent is shot and killed in the Alps of Switzerland. Not long afterward, "Patricia Foster" (Doris Day) is caught red-handed trying to sell industrial secrets from the cosmetics firm she is employed with to a rival company. She is immediately terminated and subsequently hired by the rival American firm to become an industrial designer for them. This results in her working with a man named "Christopher White" (Richard Harris) who is actually a secret agent employed by the same firm that initially fired Patricia. Or so it all seems. What follows is a complicated story involving industrial espionage, double agents, secret formulas and murder. Anyway, as I said before this is a complicated story and in order to fully understand it a person has to see this movie all the way to the end. Along with that I think a person needs to take into consideration the fact that this movie was filmed in 1967 and as a result some of the action may seem rather basic by today's standards. Likewise some of the humor may seem a bit tame as well. Even so, although some of it seems quite mild it was an enjoyable movie for the most part. Doris Day and Richard Harris do a decent enough job and Irene Tsu (as "Su Ling") looks quite nice even if her role was somewhat limited. All things considered then, I rate this as about average.

blanche-2 This is one of those movies that was originally panned but holds up today, probably because the story and fashions are so of the era as to make it somewhat interesting. Doris is bedecked in all sorts of fabulous mod clothes in this confusing story about double agent cosmetic spies. There are some cute scenes, one in a restaurant and another in a movie theater (which is disconcerting because of the 20th Century Fox logo and their music starting - you think the movie may be starting over). Anyway, Doris sings Caprice on the movie screen while her character attempts to get a lock of hair from the woman in front of her. Meanwhile, the woman's boyfriend, embracing his girlfriend, has one hand on Doris' leg.I disagree with one of the comments that said that Doris was a 45-year-old who thought she was 20, due to her outrageous makeup. In actuality, that was the makeup of the period, and she didn't look strange to me at all.This is a terribly silly film but enjoyable for the cast, some good scenes, and as a '60s artifact.

pete36 Silly plot has something to do with industrial espionage in the world of cosmetics but main reason why I watched this movie was Frank Tashlin, one of the best ever US directors of comedies.But this is a very poor effort of him and sadly announces his decline. He would only make one feature-length movie, "Sgt o'Farell" with old pal Bob Hope, but it is even worse than Caprice."Caprice" is pretty bad. His direction and timing of gags is in most cases completely of the mark and the guidance of the actors seems to be inexistent. Only a couple of scenes still carry the Tashlin trademarks : the one with the microphone hidden in a sugar cube and Doris day attempting to cut some hair of a model.But what happened to Doris Day ? She is very wooden, hidden behind layers of make-up, a weird hairstyle and mostly totally overdressed.What a contrast with her sexy appearance in 'The Glass bottom boat", Tashlin's previous effort, a much funnier movie. It still has Tashlin's trademark of zaniness, madcap style and his great feeling for slapstick.It is a pity that Tashlin had to end his career on clunkers as Caprice. Instead try to see his works with Bob Hope or Jerry Lewis ( or Jayne Mansfield !) which show off his talents for madcap comedy : "Will success spoil Rock Hunter ?", "The Disorderly Orderly" and , in my mind, still one of the best comedies of all time, "Son of Paleface" with Hope and Jane Russel.