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The Perfect Furlough (1958)

The Perfect Furlough poster
Directed by
Blake Edwards
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man on leave from military service in the Arctic gets sent to Paris for a special mission. His commanding officer expects him to get into a scandal to prove a point about soldiers falling in love too easily. Things get more complicated when a woman from the base shows up to keep an eye on him.

lightheartedplayfulwhimsicalromanticcheerfulcharmingeasygoingcomic

What happens

The Perfect Furlough is a 1958 American CinemaScope Eastmancolor romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and written by Stanley Shapiro. Edwards and Shapiro would re-team the following year for another Tony Curtis service comedy, Operation Petticoat. Linda Cristal won the Golden Globe Award for Best New Star at the 16th Golden Globe Awards for the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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