FIVE GOLDEN HOURS (1961) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Mario Zampi
Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse, George Sanders,
Dennis Price, Finlay Currie, Ron Moody
Ernie Kovacs plays a professional mourner who makes a comfortable living by ingratiating himself with wealthy widows at the funerals of their newly deceased husbands. When a gold-digging countess played by Cyd Charisse crosses his path, he hatches a much crazier but potentially more lucrative scheme. An offbeat comedy, not entirely black, maybe, but still pretty dark around the edges. Kovacs was a comic surrealist whose most innovative work was in early television. Movies never caught up (or caught on) to what he could do. He died in a car crash at 42, the year after this film's release.
Ron Moody
(1924-2015)
