Movies

August, 1968

Deborah Kerr plays Prudence in Prudence and the Pill, superficially one of those marital comedies in which well-paid stars dress sublimely, trade witty retorts and keep their indiscretions discreet. Not this time. Sprinkled with improprieties certain to offend Mrs. Grundy, Prudence is all the more surprising because we hardly expect to find Deborah, David Niven and Dame Edith Evans plugging the new morality. The birth-control pills of the title are but a secondary issue, for the movie finally up...