Movies

November, 1974

Part of Vienna and the back lot at Universal Studios substitute for Moscow in The Girl from Petrovka, a pallid comedy that dimly recalls Garbo's Ninotchka the way Rock Hudson and Doris Day might have played it at their peak. Adrift in the title role, goggle-eyed Goldie Hawn establishes beyond a doubt that she is neither Garbo nor a girl from Petrovka (though she may, in fact, be the new Doris Day). Hal Holbrook at least manages to act with face-saving skill as a roving American newspaper corresp...