Darling Lili is a spy movie with a canary that sings songs and sells secrets. Julie Andrews plays Miss Lili Smith, a British stage star during WWI, who's also an agent for the enemy. Amidst her flights of fancy, she meets flyboy ace Major William Larrabee (Rock Hudson), whom she seduces for the good of the Kaiser. Upon its release, Blake Edwards's film was scorned by some who claimed it was a bloated gift to the former Mrs. von Trapp. Yet it is much more a kind of drunken extolment of innocence and chivalry set against the troubled romanticism of the Great War. Andrews's treacly countenance is perfect as she cross-dresses as a duplicitous femme fatale. For his part, Rock is all gushy gallantry beneath his leather flight jacket. Darling Lili has sufferable songs by Henry Mancini, a dogfight with Baron von Richthofen, a sidesplitting striptease, and almost twenty-five minutes of padding cut out in this version by the director himself.