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Actors: Doris Day, Richard Harris, Ray Walston
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Caprice |
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In the prologue an Interpol agent is shot while skiing in Switzerland. The scene shifts to Paris, where fashion victim Patricia Foster, an industrial designer with Femina Cosmetics, has a rendezvous at the Eiffel Tower. She is arrested trying to sell the secret formula for a new underarm deodorant to an undercover detective. After persuading her employer, Sir Jason Fox, not to prosecute, Matthew Cutter of May Fortune Cosmetics offers her a job in America. In Los Angeles, his amorous assistant Christopher White covertly injects Patricia with a truth drug to extract information about Sir Jason's new glamorous wig.
Patricia has a meeting with Sir Jason on his private jet, the incident in Paris having been a setup to help her infiltrate May Fortune. Dr. Stuart Clancy, their chief cosmetic chemist, has invented a water-repellent hair spray which will make all other hair sprays obsolete. Patricia must get the formula or at least a lock of treated hair. Dr. Clancy's formulas are not only protected by steel shutters but are electronically coded, so when Patricia recognizes his secretary Su Ling as the girl in the hair spray demonstration, she follows her around trying to snip her hair. She is frightened by a spider in a potting shed, chased by a Great Dane and then soaked with water while dangling over a cliff, unaware that she is being photographed by White.
White tells Patricia he is a double agent loyal to Sir Jason, but she is suspicious when she sees him planting a bug in a sugar bowl, and amusingly frustrates his efforts to record their conversation. Patricia next tries to snip Su's hair at a cinema - bizarrely, the movie showing is Caprice with Doris Day and Richard Harris. Meanwhile White has discovered that Patricia is really Philippa Fowler, the daughter of the Interpol agent killed in Switzerland. Is she just after the hair spray or has she some other secret objective?
--Maureen Evans, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Caprice |
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Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Kind of comedy
- bungling spies
How much humor v. drama
- Mostly humor, but some serious drama
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- white
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) muscular
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- scientist
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) skinny
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
- Switzerland
City?
Yes
City:
- Paris
Misc setting
- scientific labs
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Any profanity?
- None
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