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Watch: Houseboat 1958 123movies, Full Movie Online – Tom Winters, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father..
Plot: An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 8,941
	64% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 138 Popularity: 8.543 | TMDB

Reviews:

GRANT/LOREN SO HAPPY TOGETHER…!
A romantic comedy short on logic but long on suave chemistry from 1958. A woman passes leaving her passel of 3 children w/their estranged father played by Cary Grant. Enter the luminous Sophia Loren, the daughter of a well regarded Italian music conductor who’s on the outs w/her father so she flees his strict confines to meet up Grant & offer her services to be his maid & au pair to his unruly trio of brats when they move into the moored titular houseboat. That she falls for Grant while his wife’s sister has made her feelings known makes for an interesting set of misconceptions & situations. What is essentially a remake of Grant’s Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House mixed w/Sabrina has romance being the main sauce to this amorous pasta which makes this meal go down smoothly w/o the caloric guilt. Enjoy!

Warm, with a witty Cary Grant and stiff Sofia Loren…and a forced plot
Houseboat (1958)

It’s crazy to write a review of a movie this old, with two legends, as if I have anything new to say. But that’s exactly why it’s worth my while. I watched it as a “Cary Grant movie” which is a category like a “Greta Garbo movie.” And he’s good, though there are no real sparks on screen between him and Sofia Loren, a substitute for Grant’s wife of the moment, who wrote the original script. I think it ends up just a match of two screen beauties. The 1958 public liked it, at least.

It’s weird how old Loren looks here—she’s playing a 22 year old (she’s 24 during the shoot), but her whole demeanor and hairstyle scream 30 or 40. Weird, because she’s supposed to be a wild kid that her dad can’t control. This matters because Grant plays an older man—an older father of three whose wife has died and who really needs a nanny. Loren’s character becomes the nanny even though she’s from a privileged family, mostly as an escape. Famously, Grant had been trying to woo Loren for months during their previous film, and he may or may not have gotten anywhere, but by this filming she made clear she wasn’t interested, and even got married (to Carlo Ponti) while this one was being shot.

The plot is fun but the film is a bit plasticky. It’s not as funny or clever as the old screwball days. Or as fast. The three kids are fine but barely—no great acting here, and no great direction either. Oh yeah, the director—Melville Shavelson—is not making the most of his material. He’s more of a screenwriter (he co-wrote this) and there are some great lines. The direction is routine, however, which is a shame, because some scenes are clunky and others play out as if the script would do all the work.

Even the cinematography is merely adequate, though the sets and setting are great so you might not notice. The idea of using a houseboat (a real one in Maryland) is a great money saving device, no doubt, and it gives everything an offbeat air.

So it’s all enjoyable if nothing remarkable, more or less typical of this low point in Hollywood movie-making. The best here is Grant, who still throws his classic one-liners off as if they were his. Too bad they echo out of sync with the rest of the cast.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Comedy, Drama, Family
Director Melville Shavelson
Writer Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, Betsy Drake
Actors Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 3 wins & 4 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System), Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera VistaVision Camera
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (horizontal)
Cinematographic Process VistaVision
Printed Film Format 35 mm