Happy Birthday to Geraldine Chaplin and Barry Van Dyke.
TCM showed Peppermint Frappe which stared Geraldine Chaplin technically the day after her birthday. This movie creeped me out a little bit. Geraldine plays a duel role. One as a brunette with a peaches and cream complexion, nurse who is somewhat dowdy and a wild blond, pale complexion who is married to the doctors best friend. The doctor seeing the similarities between the women seduces the nurse. The doctor invites the nurse and his married friends to dinner. The friends liberally drink. The nurse is late and the blond decides to go find her. She rides a bike with her husband following her. The nurse is hiding in the shadows of the house. The blond collapses and then her husband. The doctor follows in the car. He puts them both in the car. He drives to a cliff, gets out and then pushes the car off the cliff. When he gets back to the house the brunette is pretending to be the blond. They kiss. The end..
I really didn’t get the film. There was something about eyelashes and lipstick and legs (ok I get the legs) that was just weird. I don’t get why he spiked the drinks and killed the couple. I thought at first that maybe the brunette was jealous and spiked the drinks, but I watched the film again trying to understand the film and the doctor did not drink. He held the class but never actually drank.
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