Likeable film. Colorful, funny, fast... and the sunny Janet Leigh! She always makes me laugh. Tony Curtis also tends to be fun.
Many critics' reviews and comments here have the accents wrong. They either knock or apologize for Tony Curtis's accent. Nobody seems quite sure what authority to quote.
"Do You Speak American?" is maybe the best source on this. That is a PBS series now all on YouTube, and a book, by the former PBS anchor Robert MacNeil. He had traveled back and forth between parts of the UK and parts of the US, to show how regional British dialects had crossed the Atlantic, and even now remain intact.
It is the "received pronunciation" or "Queen's English" in the UK used by almost all the actors here EXCEPT Tony Curtis that has evolved - a lot - in just the past 100-plus years. Nobody back then spoke English like the actors all wrongly do here.
See also "How Americans preserved British English" on the website of the BBC.
Many critics' reviews and comments here have the accents wrong. They either knock or apologize for Tony Curtis's accent. Nobody seems quite sure what authority to quote.
"Do You Speak American?" is maybe the best source on this. That is a PBS series now all on YouTube, and a book, by the former PBS anchor Robert MacNeil. He had traveled back and forth between parts of the UK and parts of the US, to show how regional British dialects had crossed the Atlantic, and even now remain intact.
It is the "received pronunciation" or "Queen's English" in the UK used by almost all the actors here EXCEPT Tony Curtis that has evolved - a lot - in just the past 100-plus years. Nobody back then spoke English like the actors all wrongly do here.
See also "How Americans preserved British English" on the website of the BBC.
