If you're looking for another American Gigolo, you're not going to find it in Just a Gigolo. Starting with the extremely strange music during the opening credits and the odd war footage, it's clear the movie isn't going to make the history books as a classic.

David Bowie comes home to Berlin after WWII and can't find work. He doesn't have any "skills", and since the workforce is pretty competitive from all the returning soldiers, he's unemployed and poor. Meanwhile, Sydne Rome comes onto him constantly, and even though he rebuffs her and seems a little shell-shocked, somewhere along the line he decides to become a gigolo to make some money. Given the general disinterest of his character, that part of the plot didn't really make sense to me. It did make sense to see Marlene Dietrich (brought out of retirement just this once) as the madam of the brothel. And it was nice to see Kim Novak, but next time I'll just rent one of her earlier movies that I know and love.

Kim Novak a great International Movie Star starred in a series of "lost films" at the end of her career, "Just A Gigilo" "The Children" and "Liebestraum" all were just either not released in the USA or tossed and forgotten. A shame because all 3 films deserve to be seen to evaluate Novak's acting. Kim Novak was a great star with Picnic, Vertigo, Bell Book And Candle etc. Novak's last major release was the great Mirror Crack'd with Rock Hudson, Anela Lansburg and trading wicked barbs with a true peer the great Elizabeth Taylor.

This film was shot in Germany and David Bowie is the star with Maria Schell who starred with Glenn Ford in "Cimmarron" and a small unforgettable cameo by Marlene Dietrich who sings the title song. This film as I said was shot in Germany but Dietrich's scenes were shot on a. Soundstage in Paris. That is called clout. Kim Novak is a always professional in a small role.

This film should be seen only to see real stars like Kim Novak and Marlene Dietrich.

By no means awful, but it is pretty tiresome. JUST A GIGOLO features David Bowie as a WWI vet who returns home to find that he really has no skills and no prospects...thus his turn to the titled profession. Bowie is pretty good, if a bit too subdued, while the supporting cast, including Sydne Rome, Kim Novak and Maria Schell act, act, act! They're fun to watch, just out of step with Bowie. Directed by actor David Hemmings, the film has a bleached out, depressing look to it and yet, a lot of humor gets through, particularly whenever Rome, as a zonked out would be movie starlet, is on screen. Marlene Dietrich pops up for a brief moment, and despite her advanced age, looks pretty good. It's slow going, but after a dull first hour, it manages to entertain.