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It's hard to believe that a director as experienced and skillful as Mervyn LeRoy is responsible for Moment to Moment. LeRoy could almost always be counted on for a minimum level of expertise, even if he sometimes had his ups and downs. But the director seems to have checked his interest at the door with Moment, and the result is a very bad movie -- but, crucially, one of those bad movies that is easy to love. Moment has a plot that only Hitchcock could pull off -- and he would know that it would need a tremendous amount of work before it could be made workable, let alone believable. It doesn't help that Alec Coppel and John Lee Mahin's dialogue is, let us say, not exactly on the level of Shakespeare. There are plenty of howlers along the way, and many moments that will have bad movie mavens shaking their heads with glee. Jean Seberg is surprisingly flat, which adds to the fun, and Honor Blackman is a lively, campy delight. Sean Garrison is around for male eye candy, and Arthur Hill is amusingly lost as a psychiatrist who doesn't notice what a lunatic his own wife is. There's some great Riviera scenery -- but a surprising amount of the film is clearly filmed on a studio backlot. Those in the mood for a good old really bad film will enjoy Moment, but those with no tolerance for this kind of thing should definitely pass it by.