When you realize that Natalie Wood, vixen in a paisley bikini, is in the mix, the stakes seem suddenly a bit higher. Wood played Carol, who had resolved to be totally honest with her husband Bob (Robert Culp) —
even about the extramarital affairs they were having. Ted (Elliott Gould) and Alice (Dyan Cannon) weren’t so comfortable with the idea, but in one of those movie-world intellectual conversations that gets real,
Alice ends up demanding to swap partners. It works — briefly, and then it doesn’t.
