Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

BigWhiskers A kind hearted cop drops a 17yo criminal off at a wealthy writers house because he doesn't want her to spend xmas in jail and somehow knows that a writer is thinking about writing a script about juvenile delinquents and how she'd be the perfect girl for his story and that she could stay with him until after Xmas when she'd have to appear in court and then drop a romantic angle to it. This was based on a play? Who the heck would produce such a laughably bad implausible story.Let's also take a look at our main players . Dick Powell who plays Mark the writer , Debbie Reynolds as Susan the juvenile delinquent and Anne Francis as Isabel(Mark's date mate) , the irritating Alvy Moore also plays a scheming little rat of an assistant hired by Mark. I just can't buy the Susan - Mark romantic angle that develops. He is supposed to be 35 and she 17 when we all know damn well that he looks much older and that she is older than 17 herself. In reality Powell was 50 and Reynolds was 22 and certainly with the way she swished around the room in some scenes was quite evident how far removed from 17 she was. Reynolds also overacts especially when she first appears on screen acting like a spoiled brat yelling and screaming doing the tomboy routine that is so bad its hard to watch. Powell doesn't fare much better , he simply looks bored half the time with this empty expression on his face - how could anyone be sexually attracted to him . Francis is nothing more than wasted eye candy and the only scene she really has a chance to act turns into a whining bitch scene -showing how bad the script is as well as her acting. Alvy Moore also overacts and really slimes it up on screen and to me never does anything more than sleepwalk through his lines. I was hoping he'd step into an elevator and have it fall 20 stories. The movie sags and drags with a really anti climatic ending and talk about sugary sap - a birdcage swing ???. And this is supposed to be a rocom? More like a bombcom.

dougdoepke I confess to a soft spot for this candy-box confection. Ordinarily 10 minutes of Debbie- Reynolds-spunk is enough to last me for 2 hours. But I've got to admit she brings genuine verve and sparkle to the role. Never mind that Dick Powell is closer to 50 than the movie- claimed 35, and at least twice as old as the juvenile Reynolds. Fortunately their clinches are kept to a minimum, even as the under-age innuendo is exploited to the hilt for titillated 1950's audiences. If the plot skirts the bounds of good taste, director Tashlin keeps things from straying with a speeded-up pace that allows little pause for contemplation. I would love to have been in on the meetings where studio exec's kicked this premise around for the censors.Anyway, Powell is appropriately dour as the sober-sided screenwriter, while Glenda Farrell gets the kind of caustic role that would later suit Thelma Ritter to the proverbial T. And, of course, there's Alvy Moore looking like a college freshman and getting all the clever wisecracks, even if in real life he was a veteran of the bloody WWII battle for Iwo Jima! Too bad Anne Francis doesn't get more screen time as "the other woman". But then she does show why she deserved that drop-dead sexy outfit she wore in Forbidden Planet (1956). Cult director Tashlin manages a few of trademark effects from his cartoonist past—note Reynolds cooling off her libido with a swinging freezer door, and, of course, the fantasy sequences that fit in perfectly.All in all, I think RKO got away with one-- had the movie been handled less deftly, someone might have landed in 1954's county clink.

jotix100 What would a confirmed bachelor, of a certain age, do with the unexpected arrival of a lively 17 years old girl into his life? Reason would indicate to run away from the situation! But have no fear, in the theater, as well as in the movies, these two unmatched people get to grow fond of one another and eventually they get married. That seems to be the premise of "Susan Slept Here", a movie that proves irresistible because of the two leading stars.Under the direction of Frank Tashlin, this movie, although reflecting a naivete not in synch with the present times, is good fun to watch. The film is done with an impeccable good taste and there is never anything tawdry, or out of place with what one is watching.Dick Powell was at his best when he took the part of Mark Christopher a thirty-something man in the plot, but looking older than that. Debbie Reynolds, as Susan Landis, brought her winning personality and charm to this rebel girl that begins a total transformation as she discovers she is attracted to Mark.The supporting cast is also up to task under Mr. Tashlin's guidance. Anne Francis is seen as Isabella, Mark's present love interest. Glenda Farrell, Horace McMahon, Herb Vigran and Alvy Moore, among others make this delightful film into a winner.Mr. Tashlin includes a dance sequence that plays as a dream in which Mr. Powell, Ms. Francis and Ms. Reynolds are seen as the players. The film is festive and it will delight any viewer looking for an easy time at the movies.

DSchryer The plot of this movie was a bit silly even when it came out in 1954. But because it features Debbie Reynolds at age 22 (playing a 17 year old) -- when she was very beautiful, vibrant, and also quite sexy -- it's one of my favorite films. Everyone seems to concede that the young Debbie Reynolds was talented and spunky, but because of her girl-next-door persona, few seem to recognize that she had more genuine beauty and sex appeal than many overtly "sultry" or "sexy" actresses of her era -- or, indeed, of any era. The rest of the cast is quite adequate but it's Debbie who makes this movie a lot of fun to watch.