Al is approached by a doctor who has concerns for a patient of his who has lost the will to live. All he knows is he has heard her mumble the name Mundy. Al agrees to try and help his old family friend Bette Davis, Bessie Grindel, get her game back on. Unfortunately her game happens to be jewel thief. It's fun watching Al bring Bessie back to life in a sort of Pygmalion episode. But has Al done his job too well. Will Bessie try to steal back a diamond that used to be hers but is now decorating the neck of Carlo Rubano's new young wife and possibly endanger a US operation at the same time? An opportunity for Bette Davis to show she still had acting chops at age 62 when she looked 82.
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"What about the capah?"
mark.waltz22 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers
It is obvious from the start that Bette Davis is having a joyous time working in this life hearted episode of it takes a thief with a man she obviously adored off screen. It's obvious that Davis and star Robert Wagner have terrific chemistry, leaving you laughing as they do what they both loved doing for a living and looking great in these gorgeous Majorcan sets. The initially has a supposedly ailing Davis coming back to life when she gets the taste of wanting to stealing jewels again, disguising herself as a cleaning woman and a nun and having a glow that she often didn't have when she was working on a project she didn't particularly like. She's a variation of the same character she played opposite Wagner just a few years later ("Madam Sin"), wearing delightfully mod outfits and making me wonder how she would have been as Auntie Mame. This is not the melodramatic Bette Davis from the Warner Brothers women's pictures she did in the 1940's, but a completely new one, pretty much taking up where Tallulah Bankhead in "Batman" left off.
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