You get three Walter Matthaus for the price of one here, as he cynically bulldozes his way through three acts of Neil Simon's play about the goings-on in a swanky hotel suite. As nervous comedy, it's best when it's serious (Maureen Stapleton trying to keep husband Matthau from his mistress). Yet the slapstick episodes (Hollywood producer trying to bed old flame; bemused father trying to coax bride-to-be daughter out of a locked loo) have their moments, even if the top-of-the-voice humour sometimes becomes so strident, it's inaudible.

Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention and help save their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to seduce his former one-time flame Muriel. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and persuade their daughter, a bride to-be with cold feet, out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding ceremony.