Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown out of their apartment when Gerry meets rich businessman being shown around as a prospective tenant. He gives Gerry $700 to start life afresh but Tom refuses to believe her story and they quarrel. Gerry decides the marriage is over and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce but Tom has plans to stop her.... (Full plot summary below)
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Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown out of their apartment when Gerry meets rich businessman being shown around as a prospective tenant. He gives Gerry $700 to start life afresh but Tom refuses to believe her story and they quarrel. Gerry decides the marriage is over and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce but Tom has plans to stop her.
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| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenSturges on the importance of money, sex, and guns -- not necessarily in that order. |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherIt should have been a breathless comedy. But only the actors are breathless -- and that from talking so much. |
| New York PostLou LumenickThis might not be the funniest film of Sturges' brilliant '40s heyday ("The Miracle of Morgan's Creek"), or the most subversively romantic ("The Lady Eve"), or the best made ("Sullivan's Travels"), but it's definitely a censor-baiting treat. |
| Seanax.comSean AxmakerLeave it to Preston Sturges to create the sexiest and most grown-up romantic comedy of his day. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendrickone of the outright funniest movies of its era, a veritable parade of wicked-rapid dialogue, absurdist narrative loops, and socially subversive attitude |
| Dispatch-Tribune NewspapersSteve CrumPrime Preston Sturges, which means sublime sophisticated zaniness. |
| VarietyVariety StaffThis Prestton Sturges production is packed with delightful absurdities. |
| The DissolveKeith PhippsEven as Colbert and McCrea trade fast-paced dialogue and fall into each others' arms, they sell their characters' marriage as one whose fire desperately needs tending. |
| Times (UK)Kate MuirIn many ways this screwball comedy is a precursor to Some Like It Hot, but with a silkier wit and some gorgeous fashions. |
| User ReviewKevin NPreston Sturges' anarchic masterpiece is an ode to the inexplicable strangeness rather than the easy nice things about love. It challenges itself and its viewers by starting with a marriage in tatters, and sets about to have its characters fall in love with each other even while filing divorce from one another. It's brilliant, to say the least, and what's more is it's totally artistic while being laugh-out-loud funny. Sturges' style is meticulous, especially for the romantic comedy genre, and he isn't afraid to make his audience work for their pleasure. The film's opening credits have puzzled viewers since their debut, and it is only the patient and attentive viewers, the ones who think, who are rewarded at the movie's end. Despite the horror stories I've heard about her real life ego, I can't help but admit that Claudette Colbert is one of the funniest and most interesting actresses that graced Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. She is so beautiful, and so delicate-looking, yet her comic timing is quick and jagged; she is perfect for this part. And her counterpart, Joel McCrea, is equally impressive in his deadpan role as the wild woman's husband, who cares about her, but not really, but, yeah, really does. This is a very funny movie and a masterpiece of storytelling besides. |
