Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

JohnHowardReid NOTES: Number 9 at Australian ticket windows for 1950; number 10 at the British box-office for 1949; number 2 at U.S./Canadian cinemas, its gross rental receipts of $4.1 million being exceeded only by the $5 million returned by Jolson Sings Again. Despite this popularity, the movie does not figure on any of the usual "Ten Best" lists from contemporary critics and commentators.COMMENT: Slow, dated romantic comedy. Most of the humor consists of (1) a risqué element that was doubtless considered very daring in a Hollywood film of 1949 but is now totally passé; (2) tilts at officialdom and red tape which even in 1949 had been pretty well done to death and now more than ever seem like flogging a dead horse; (3) elementary slapstick including such hoary old gags as climbing up a pole to read a sign labelled "Wet Paint". Each gag is introduced and developed at a funereal pace. The accent is heavily on talk and such humor as there is, is sometimes muffed by the inept direction of Howard Hawks. Comedy was NOT his forte! Still, thanks to the hard-working cast, some laughs do manage to survive. Although he makes no attempt at a French accent, Cary Grant makes a good contrast to Ann Sheridan. These two clashing personalities do manage to strike a few sparks. The rest of the cast is more than competent, though only a few of the players are known to us and their parts are small.Some of the wisecracks are fairly amusing and a bit of the slapstick (the stuntman going up on the level crossing gate, Grant mumbling to an empty chair as the process screen speeds by) is mildly diverting. But the film as a whole, despite its exceptionally lavish production values, including extensive location filming with the principals against actual German locales, could benefit by considerable trimming.Hawks' direction is occasionally imaginative (the gate rising behind the train, Grant coming into view in front of the lieutenant's window), occasionally inept (switching to another angle for the bike and sidecar gag was a mistake), but mostly dull.

pete36 Grant plays a French officer who constantly bickers with Sheridan, a US WAC officer in immediate post-WWII Germany, but they fall in love, marry and want to leave for the US. But US army red tape proves a serious obstacle to their plans.I am about the biggest Hawks fan there is but this is somewhat one of his lesser efforts, compared to his other outings in the screwball genre (His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, Monkey Business, Ball of Fire,....). It still is OK to watch, if not only for the rather unusual setting of a still bombedout and devastated Germany (but the Autobahns seem intact). The Germans in this movie all seem to be very nice by the way but mainly consisting of females or elderly people as the young (males) were likely all dead or in a prison camp.There is a long trip through Germany with a sidecar which leads to some slapstick and pratfalls. But then they fall in love, marry quickly and the main problem becomes then the US army red tape.Grant is funny of course but is not exactly convincing as a French captain as there is no French accent all : even when a US captain starts to talk French to him it looks as Grant doesn't even understand him. Also he seems waferthin in this movie as his uniform and later his civil clothes seems a bit too large for him. He suffers quite a lot through the film at the point you really start to feel sorry for him. His new wife also doesn't seem to care much.It ends well of course but only when Grant has been thoroughly humiliated and having to dress up as a woman.So not the best of Hawks&Grant movies. But there might be some external reason for this : both Sheridan, Grant and also director Hawks became seriously ill during filming. It might explain (partly) the minor end result. With their next collaboration, Monkey Business, they were again up to their usual par.

gavin6942 Captain Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry. When the war ends, Capt. Rochard tries to return to America with the other female war brides. Zany gender-confusing antics follow.I am amused by the casting of Grant as a Frenchman -- it worked in the 1940s, but would never work today. Grant, obviously, is not French. He does not even attempt an accent. But for whatever reason, this does nothing to take away from the movie...This is the sort of humor we expect from Grant and Hawks. While not quite as quick-witted as some of the other films they did, it still has plenty of clever moments. It also should get credit for being a relatively early cross-dressing movie, even if the only actual cross-dressing is Grant with a horse tail on his head.

treeline1 In post-war Germany, a WAC (Ann Sheridan) and a French Captain (Cary Grant) fight like cats and dogs, quickly marry, and then face endless red tape when he tries to immigrate to the US with his new bride.Wow, did I hate this movie. It wasn't funny, it was horribly miscast, and it felt like it would never end. Grant inexplicably plays a Frenchman, even though he uses his trademark Cary Grant accent. Since he sounds American, the whole premise doesn't work. His dialogue is inane and I'm sure he was embarrassed to make this movie. Sheridan is as sexy and alluring as Ma Kettle and talks to Cary like his football coach; there's no love or chemistry and they make an off-putting couple. Katharine Hepburn would have been better for this part with perhaps Charles Boyer in Grant's role...someone, anyone, who could convince us he's French.The endless paperwork required by the Army for an alien husband to enter the U.S. with a WAC sounds believable and this was based on a true story, but the whole thing is tedious, boring, and disappointing.