"Model Shop" is an intriguing discard in the corner of the Hollywood closet - yet how would it be thought of today if director Jacques Demy ("Umbrellas of Cherbourg") had been able to cast his first ...

The pot-boiler plot finds merchant seaman David (Keith Andes, the sort of minor US star then thought obligatory) using his shore-leave to meet his dead brother’s ex-fiancée, now a flighty, top model.