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Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

SimonJack William Powell and Myrna Loy made 14 movies together from 1934 to 1947. The only other pairing of couples in film history that is longer is Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, with 29 films. Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn made nine films together, six of which were comedies. A couple Powell-Loy films were dramas. Ten of them were comedies, including the Thin Man series. Other couples have had very good matches for comedies over the years, but Powell and Loy gave us more laughs than any other duo. "I Love You Again" is one of the few movies in which Powell really had to pursue Loy. That's because he had amnesia, and had to start life all over again – a third time. We don't see him in his first life before his amnesia. He plays a hardened criminal turned cold and dull task-master, turned starry-eyed smitten crook who wants to reform for love. Powell plays Larry Wilson (aka, George Carey), Loy plays Kay Wilson, and Frank McHugh plays Doc Ryan. Nella Walker plays Kay's mother, a mother- in-law who likes her son-in-law (whomever he may be). Donald Douglas plays Herbert who has designs on Kay. Edmund Lowe plays a scam artist, Duke Sheldon, from Larry's (i.e., George Carey's) past. All of these and the rest of the cast give excellent performances. This is a very funny film, with some riotously funny scenes. In the beginning, Powell's Larry Wilson is aboard a ship returning to the U.S. from Europe. He seems chomping at the bit to get out of his Larry Wilson character. He's a real hoot as the penny-pinching, juice-drinking bore who thinks everyone should experience the quality of people and life in Habersville. After a tipsy Ryan falls overboard, Larry tosses him a lifesaver and is knocked into the brink himself. Shouts of "Man overboard" brings the ship to a stop and the crew rows out to rescue the drunk and Larry, whom the passengers think jumped in to save Ryan. The tipsy Ryan appears to be saving Larry in the water, who appears not able to swim. As the lifeboat approaches, an oarsman drops an oar that conks Larry on the head. When he comes to in his cabin, a sober Ryan is beside him, saying that Larry saved his life. Only Larry isn't Larry anymore. He's his real self, George Carey, and the time is 10 years earlier. Ryan and he eventually get straight what has happened, and after finding a checkbook in Larry's belongings with a huge balance in the bank, they decide that George should go on being Larry and they will make off with the dough. That's when the hilarity picks up. And, George soon finds himself falling for the gal Larry married, Kay Wilson. Only now she wants a divorce. So, he sets out to try to win her heart, while still trying to figure a way to pull off a scam with Doc and Duke of some of the town's wealthy. Will George succeed in one or both? Will he go back to being George? Or, will he stay Larry for life – a new Larry? Well, one can guess the outcome. But, it's in the getting there that we have some wonderful entertainment again from Powell and Loy. Here are a few of my favorite lines from the film. Larry to Herbert, "You're taking my wife. The least you could do is give me the Chamber of Commerce."Kay to Larry, "You're not getting anywhere, and I wish you'd stop." Larry, "Stop not getting anywhere?" Kay, "No. Stop getting me mixed up. I want you to be your old self. You're old stuffy, speech-making, pompous old self."Larry is leading his junior rangers troop and a neighboring leader is monitoring his methods in the wild. When the visitor asks him why he laid deer tracks the way he did, he replies, "Elementary deer psychology." His trip in the woods is a real hoot. Larry is going to Duke to call off the scam. Doc says, "Don't get him sore, Larry. I saw you fight once and, honest, you was awful."Toward the end of the film, Larry knows he has cooed his way into Kay's heart when she lays it on the line. Kay, "Ever since you got off that boat, you've been chasing me like an amorous goat. You've tried your darnedest to make me fall in love with you and now you have. So, from now on I'm going to do the chasing, and believe me, brother, you're going to know you've been chased." This is a wonderful film that the whole family should enjoy. The kids should like the antics, especially the trek into the woods with the junior rangers.

tavm Just watched this on Netflix disc. William Powell plays a man who was often careful with his money, in other words, stingy. But then he gets hit on the head and he then becomes his former self-a con man who thinks nothing of what to do with that. Frank McHugh is the guy Powell saved before his personality change so he's there the whole time. Myrna Loy is Powell's wife who had wanted to divorce him but...well, watch the movie if you want to find out. This was quite hilarious as it kept on going. So on that note, I highly recommend I Love You Again. P.S. The reason I watched this just now was because since I've been watching the Our Gang shorts-and the films separate from the series featuring at least one member in it-in chronological order, well, this is actually a little before some of the ones I recently reviewed but never mind. Both Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer and Mickey Gubitosi-as Robert Blake was then known as-appeared here while both were members of that classic kid group. Alfalfa is quite hilarious when involving oil in the water. Also, since I like to cite when players of my favorite movie, It's a Wonderful Life, appear in something else, here it's Charles Halton-Mr. Carter, the bank examiner there-playing Alfalfa's father. While both Halton and Switzer were in that movie, this is the first time I've seen them share a scene.

Stephen Alfieri William Powell and Myrna Loy were paired together in 14 films. Most notably, "The Thin Man" series stands out, but a little lesser known film, "I Love You, Again", is a gem of a comedy, and the two stars shine brightly.Larry Wilson (Powell)while saving a stranger's life, receives a blow on the head. This makes him "wake up" from suffering amnesia. In reality, he is George Carey, con man. It seems that nine years earlier, Carey received a blow to the head, which turned him into Wilson.During those "missing" nine years, Wilson has married Kay (Myrna Loy), worked as the manager of a pottery manufacturer, and been nothing but a cheap, teetotalling, boor, whom everyone in a sleepy Pennsylvania town loves. Except for Kay. She has grown tired of Wilson and wants a divorce.This scenario is given to you in the first fifteen minutes of the movie, and it's off to the races in this delightful comedy.Of course it's ridiculous, and of course, everything works out in the end. But who cares, Powell and Loy are superb, and that's all we really care about. Myrna Loy will break your heart with her beauty and grace, and that little up-turned nose. Powell is utterly charming as Carey, and hysterical as Wilson. They are the ultimate dream team.Expertly directed by W.S. Van Dyke II, with great support from Frank McHugh, Edmund Lowe and Donald Douglas (in what could be called the "Ralph Bellamy" part).8 out of 10 stars

blanche-2 After saving a life, William Powell becomes the victim of amnesia in "I Love You Again," a 1940 film also starring Frank McHugh and Edmund Lowe - this having the distinction of two Philo Vances, Lowe and Powell, in the cast.Powell plays a cheapskate named Larry Wilson. While on a cruise ship, he jumps into the ocean to save "Doc" Ryan (McHugh) and suffers a head injury. When he wakes up, he has become his former self, a con artist named George and has no memory of the respectable, conservative, stingy life he has been living for some years. Off the ship, he discovers that his lovely wife (Loy) can't wait to get rid of him - or so she thinks, until she realizes that "Larry" is a changed man - for the better.Powell is out and out hilarious in this film. For such a distinguished looking man, he has provided this writer with almost as many laugh out loud moments as the Marx Brothers. One of his best scenes is when his wife refuses to dance with him, so he dances by himself. Another occurs when, as a boy scout troop leader, he is asked to continue with the deer-tracking techniques he was teaching before leaving town. Of course, he has no memory of any such thing and, as a reporter follows him, he falls into holes, crawls around the brush, and gets stuck in a couple of traps.The pairing of Powell and Loy is magical. She looks particularly beautiful in this film and her confusion regarding her changed husband and sadness over her marriage is quite touching.Highly recommended.