Starts out ok with some interesting observations about a star quarterback being forced into early retirement due to health concerns. Fairly sure this was the first time Hollywood had tackled this subject (no pun intended) since, prior to the 50s, all but the top athletes were more glorified working stiffs than the minor gods and goddesses they are today. However, around the start of the second act, the temptations of soap opera (i.e. The team secretary, who has a yen for the QB, was married to the team owner's son blah blah) and sexism prove too much for director Jacques Tourneur and scenarist Charles Schnee so that by the end things get pretty offensively idiotic with Liz Scott being repeatedly slapped by hubby Vic (Im) Mature, to the point where blood is drawn, for the reliably heinous sin in 1949 America of being an ambitious career woman. And instead of reaching into her purse (to mention nothing of her usual femme fatale persona) to pull out a .45 and blow away (Im) Mature's abusive ass she meekly submits to being the meekly submissive wife of an ASSISTANT football coach at some podunk college. And audiences, especially female ones, would have to wait 42 years for Thelma and Louise to finally right the wrong. Give it a C. PS...Sure is weird seeing Jack Paar stripped of wit and personality.
Review of Easy Living
