Plot Summary - Romantic comedy with a touch of screwball, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Married couple David and Ann Smith (Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard) have an agreement of never leaving the bedroom after a quarrel until they have made-up - even if it takes days! This is how we are introduced to this handsome looking couple. They set rules for each other and agree to answer questions honestly. When she asks if David would marry her if he had to do it all over again he says - well, "no". Well, oddly enough, that chance arrives sooner than they would think - seems through a technical glitch involving their marriage license, they were never really married. Ann finds out about the glitch the same day, but David doesn't know she knows. When he takes her out to their old favorite restaurant that evening, "Momma Lucy's" (which turns out to not have the charm they remembered - but, hey, the dinner is only 65 cents) he neglects to do the expected - ask her to marry him and get married that night (remember, this is the forties!). So - he is thrown out of the house and ends up living at his men's club and getting advise from a chum in the steam room. Soon Ann goes on a date and gets a salesgirl job at a department store. They proceed to try and make each other jealous and she's soon going out with his business partner, while David goes on a double date with the steam room pal and two floozies. The inevitable happens, you can probably guess!
Review - Hitchcock delves into comedy, and does a nice job of it - I found this film quite amusing, even laughed out loud several times (watching by myself). The star quality of Lombard and Montgomery really helps boost this film up - Robert Montgomery happens to be one of my absolute favorites, and he oozes his usual charm in this. I was amused by the part of Ann's mother who, of course, pushes daughter to come home to mama if hubby doesn't remarry her. Okay, there's an "I Love Lucy" with almost the exact plot as this film, including the restaurant not being the way they remember - hehe. Enjoyed the chipper, whistling background music in this film. Hmm - you really know this was the forties when Ann makes up a new rule for their hubby/wife partnership - "a wife should conduct herself to please her husband". And just wondering, why do men in old movies always have a club to go to when thrown out by the wife? Was this really the way it used to be - or just movie stuff?! Rating - 9/10 stars
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