To Err Is Humor?

All in a Night's Work (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a comedy of errors. The errors:

1 ) The heroine (Shirley MacLaine), to escape the lascivious clutches of a middle-aged millionaire, darts into somebody else's hotel room at 3 a.m.. clad only in

2) a fright-blue, standard-size bath towel. There she discovers her boss, a magazine magnate, lying dead in bed with a smile on his face. Darting out, is vainly pursued by the house harry (Jack Weston). who assumes that

3) the girl in the bath towel had some to do with the smile on the corpse. His suspicion, carried secretly to the publisher's heir (Dean Martin), causes consternation in the executive suite. "I can see the headlines now-- FOUNDER OF MAGAZINE DIES IN LOVE NEST WITH NAKED NYMPH." The heir has no doubt that

4) the girl in the bath towel will soon try to blackmail the company. When the girl turns out to be a researcher on his magazine he offers her a $200-a-week raise and even a wedding ring, which she accepts, to the relief of Leading Man Martin, who obviously found small pleasure in his Night's Work because the

5 ) gags, composed by a staff of scripters apparently believe that to err is make him visibly gag. (Question: "How could she afford a mink on her salary?" Answer: "Overtime.") As for Leading Lady MacLaine, she aptly illustrates the old saying that too many kooks the froth, but even so, she is the funniest thing in

6) the entire film.

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