Tetrady not as good as all the hype

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . compulsive liar "Edwina Corday" misdirects New York's finest toward the end of IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD. She knows that "Half-Penny" has no diary in Cabin #3--or anywhere else. Some viewers may find this alleged "screwball comedy" a little misogynistic. Jimmy Stewart's "Guy Johnson" character, for instance, say's "I've never me a dame yet who wasn't a Dimwit or a Lunkhead." Later Guy groans, "Lady, you're full of prunes!" before observing that "I think all women end at the neck." After complaining that Edwina has been sticking closer to him than a tattoo, Guy reiterates that "I never knew a dame that wasn't dead from the neck up." Guy socks Edwina unconscious at least once (though this may be an undercount on my part), and forcibly kidnaps her a couple of times. Edwina's pet dog sort of disappears (maybe Guy roasted it for his supper). Since IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD was released during the 1930s, when America's movie censors where bending over backward to protect "The Fair Sex" and U.S. Motherhood, they probably curtailed many other examples of woman-bashing written into the original script.

mmallon4 The first 10 minutes of It's a Wonderful World is just rather dull set up for an incomprehensible murder mystery, but when Stewart becomes a fugitive on the run trying to prove his innocence and Claudette Colbert enters the picture it's all smooth sailing even with the largely impossible to understand plot.James Stewart is Guy Johnson, a hardboiled detective who often has a cigarette hanging at the end of his mouth like he's Phillip Marlow. The role is a very different change of pace for Stewart but he pulls it off showing he could have easily slipped into a noir/detective thriller. Stewart even channels Clark Gable at times; with even the way he talks to a dog shouting at it to go away is very Gable-like. On top of that, at one point he admits to Colbert's character that he thinks "all dames are dumb and all men ain't" and how she has changed his philosophy on women; don't tell the feminists. I also have to ask does this movie contain Stewart's only ever black face moment in a film? So yes, the on screen personification of a boy scout is now literally poking fun at boy scouts and even tying them up. Claudette Colbert on the other hand plays an overly trusting eccentric poet who states throughout the film, "I swear by my eyes". What does that even mean?It's a Wonderful World offers a genre mix of screwball comedy, murder mystery and even some elements of Hitchcock with the plot of a fugitive on the run to prove his innocence. Likewise many of the solutions' the character's use throughout the film feel like they could be used in a Hitchcock movie such as Colbert lighting the newspaper on fire to escape from the car. No surprise that the film's co-writer Ben Hecht would be a future Hitchcock writer.

JohnHowardReid On the first occasion that I saw this movie on television, I thought it extremely hilarious. Unfortunately, Ben Hecht's screenplay does not stand up so well on a second viewing, although Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke's splendid direction does come across as no wit less inspired. Another point in the movie's favor is that Claudette Colbert is most attractively photographed by Oliver T. Marsh – and Marsh's superlative handling comes across every time you see the movie! Colbert was a real pest when it came to photography and she always – despite her limited knowledge and her incorrect assessment of the angles that would depict her at her most alluring – did her level best to take charge of the camera and lighting herself. But she met her match with Mr. Marsh, and I'm sure that Van Dyke also would have taken an extremely dim view of any of Claudette's photographic orders or "suggestions". Yes, It's a Wonderful World is certainly a big-budget affair with excellent sets and a great music score and even some inspired film editing. But where it does fall down, to my surprise, is in the costumes arena. Adrian was a top designer in this field, but I thought his gowns for Claudette in this picture were both inappropriate and dated. But I guess you can't have everything you want in this wonderful world!

JLRMovieReviews I know I ought not to go crazy over this simple comedy, but pairing Claudette Colbert as a poetess who "swears by her eyes" with James Stewart - who goes all out to prove that the man, who's sentenced to die for a crime he didn't commit, is innocent - is totally an outrageous hoot. Claudette is kidnapped by James, when their paths cross, after his escape from a prison truck transferring him. She of course is missed and an APB is put out for her. But she fights with and of course falls for him. In all the excursions together, they tackle and tie up a Boy Scout when he's on to them, she says he's her fiancé when he's decked out in clothes too big for him and with glasses that make him look cross-eyed, and they wind up in a little theater group, when a clue for the real killer leads them there. Guy Kibbee is great in a supporting role, as a friend on the police force, who tries to help him out, but is only successful in being knocked or conked out three times in the movie. And, Guy's convinced if you throw a fit, you can plead insanity. "Oh no, that's them. I'm serious. Now throw a fit." Loopholes? Imperfections? Probably. Laugh-out-loud belly laughs? Silly antics? Incredible situations? A good time for all? Definitely. This is a prime example of a screwball comedy. It may not be in the same class as "Bringing Up Baby," but if you haven't seen "It's a Wonderful World." then you have missed one of the craziest and most delightful screwball comedies ever.