SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Married Baby 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?

Cristi_Ciopron An ineffable comedy with Merle Oberon, M. Douglas, Meredith, and Mowbray in a bit role, directed by Lubitsch: ageless fun, good-natured bourgeois humor, even risqué when possible (Merle explains about how she comes). The 19th century stage play has been updated, but it's still a comedy of the efficiency (as in the Hungarian party, that the pianist doesn't manage to hijack). Lubitsch sensed the possibilities of his players: of Merle, of Melvyn.I have certainly felt like the guest at the right party.M. Douglas seemed to enjoy his role, and looked more like B. Willis than like W. Powell …. (And after all, it's Melvyn in his workmanlike look.) Mowbray plays another creep: here, a psychoanalyst; he appeared, later, as the spooky colonel in a Holmes installment.

MartinHafer I love the films of Ernst Lubitsch. Most are classics and I can't think of a single director in Hollywood who was making better films during the 1930s. This being said, I certainly did not love THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING and his fans would hardly recognize this as a film of the great romantic-comedy director. Most of the problem lies in the script, as the characters are generally unlikable, their motivation seems confusing and almost non-existent and the film often tries too hard to be kooky. The usual "Lubitsch touch", which is very subtle, just isn't there.Merle Oberon plays a petulant and annoying lady. She's rich and has every reason to be happy. However, being too rich, too bored and too self-involved, she decides she needs to spice up her "dull marriage" by bringing another man into her life. This man is a pianist over-played by Burgess Meredith. He is a misanthropic pianist--a person so conceited and cynical that it's hard to imagine anyone putting up with him. Unlike Mischa Auer's charming loafer from MY MAN GODFREY, Meredith played a man who was thoroughly unlikable. Oberon seemed to find the demanding and nasty Meredith fun, though everyone else felt he was just a jerk--and he certainly was.Now at first you really feel sorry for Oberon's husband (played by Melvin Douglas). Later, however, you wonder if he's an idiot because he still wants Oberon back when their marriage naturally begins to fizzle. After all, she deliberately flaunted her new "friend" in front of her husband because she felt bored and petulant. I enjoyed seeing Douglas punch Meredith on two occasions but also felt that perhaps he owed Oberon's character a couple as well! Heck, had it been me, I'd have thrown her out (possibly through a window) and not looked back. So, what we have is a film is about infidelity and you can't like the characters--hardly a topic for a Lubitsch comedy. While it seems that Oberon never actually gets around to sleeping with Meredith, her lack of regard for her husband made me hate the film. Selfish Oberon and unimaginably rude Meredith--two characters that kill a comedy or romance.

edwagreen A really good film to doze off by. This is far better than taking sleeping tablets.When her friends persuade her to go to a psychoanalyst for her hiccups, Merle Oberon complies and finds analyst Alan Mowbray blaming her marriage to Melvyn Douglas as the culprit. It's also there that she meets off-the-wall patient Burgess Meredith. The two pursue an affair and she soon separates from Douglas.The film is just too much to believe. On the rebound,Douglas starts an affair with his attorney's ditsy secretary, a very young Eve Arden.The film is totally unappealing and unassuming to say the least. If this is comedy, forget it!!!!!

Snow Leopard In "That Uncertain Feeling", good performances by the three lead actors give some life to a rather simplistic story. It is a mildly amusing movie, but there isn't enough to the plot or the script to make it any more than that.Melvyn Douglas and Merle Oberon play a married couple who seem to be reasonably content, but a chance meeting between the wife and an eccentric pianist (Burgess Meredith) suddenly threatens their whole marriage. Rather than choosing direct confrontation, the husband tries to use psychology to turn the situation in his favor, leading to some comic situations that only partially come off.The three leads are all pretty good, especially Meredith, who has the liveliest role. And Ernst Lubitsch directs with his usual dapper style. But there isn't really much of a story, and the behavior of the characters, while generally humorous, is too often completely implausible. So the movie is really never more than mildly entertaining.This will probably only be of particular interest to those who are fans of the director or one of the stars.