Cinema: Standing Pat

Never Put It in Writing. Pat Boone doesn't sing in this picture, but it's awful anyway. Possibly because he tries to act.

He tries to act like an insurance man who gets word of a major promotion about five minutes too lateĀ—the twerp has just posted a sizzling letter of resignation. Can he get the letter back before it flies from Dublin to London? He rushes to the mailbox. "Sorry," says the mailman, "it's state property now." He tries to rob the mails. "Sorry," says a Dublin cop, "you can tell it to the judge." He cuts and runs to the airport....

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