BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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 Olivier acts according to the requirements of his role, and the suggestion made isn't of bourgeois uprightness, but rather of naivety (because in cinema, save that you actually read the script, the character means the actor, regardless of what you guess or get about what the character should be supposed to look like), Morton Selten calls the barrister a jackass; he made me think of March and, since this is a British screwball, of how March should of made his role in a '30s screwball along the way shown here by Olivier. The Englishman was obviously more _telluric, more earthly than March, but also how deprived of the dreaded blandness is his acting! (I mean it's not only that March wasn't as handsome; his acting too left to be desired, in the '30s screwball I am thinking of.) And it doesn't take him long to outshine his costar, till she seems quite limited; with him, you get the feeling that you watch one of the greatest actors ever. Being a farce, the script doesn't offer much as characterizations.A sitcom with a variety of means (the gags in the hotel scenes) and an average script, unpretentiously efficient, with a certain heartlessness and coldness, but also nicely understated, and (if not artful) it's crafty and likable, and a very good place to become fond of the leading actor, larger than life over a modest storyline; Olivier was indeed mind-blowing. Binnie Barnes, the unfaithful manipulative adventuress, statuesquely sexy.Will the fresh husband become like the cheated Lord, or like the shrewd judge? There are no signs that the latter stopped recognizing his own youthful steps in the newfound enthusiasm of his niece's husband.If the farce seems basic, the movie is superior; I have found amusing the gags, and appealing the smoothness and ability. In this sitcom is found one of the basic premises of the screwball: a woman's determination and initial decision to marry a yet unaware man; from the beginning, she knows she'll marry him.

nomoons11 You very rarely get to see Laurence Olivier do comedy but in this he does his very best. Merle Oberon is the star of this for sure but the real star of this film is the story, and the chaos of it.With this fun little English gem you'll get a comedy of errors. You know the kind. The one where all each character has to do is ask 1 basic question and the whole confusion would be solved. Not in this one. Without the question, we get keystone cops of a romantic nature.The simple idea is that a heavy fog rolls into London and everyone has to find a place to stay for the night. Olivier stops and finds a room at a hotel where a Victorian themed ball is going on. These attendees find out too late to get a room at the hotel...except ms. Oberon. She finagles her way into Olivier's room and from this, chaos comes soon after. A fun kinda chaos.Watch this and see what a girl can do to a guy just by batting her eyelashes and using her "feminine wiles" to get what she wants....in a real cute way. See why no man in the world has a chance against a beautiful and charming woman. For any guy out there, see this and you'll wanna be Olivier. You'll wanna be charmed by Merle Oberon.

tmpj No doubt this film smashed all of the conventional mores of its day, but it is pretty bland to-day. At any rate, it is beneath the talents of Lord Larry and Ms Oberon. The mistaken identity and the appearance of impropriety are allowed to languish for the duration of the film. It is a contrivance that brings to mind the insanity of George Burns and Gracie Allen, who used to feature such shenanigans weekly on their radio and television broadcasts. But...George and Gracie did it credibly and effectively. The coloration of the film does not hold up well for its seventy plus years...and it is Technicolor. This is not a film you absolutely must see...and I am a bit miffed that such fine talent is wasted on this tripe. It was a difficult watch because of the absurdity of the whole thing...and in spite of that, it is not funny in a side-splitting sense. With Olivier and Richardson the Brits could have tried their hand at madcap comedy, but it appears the old British "stiff upper plate" won out. While the story and film were on the precipice of the scandalous in their day, the film hardly registers on the Richter scale today. See it if you feel you must, but I do not recommend it highly.

didi-5 In rather wishy-washy Technicolor, this comedy of manners which the US did so well, and the UK less so, puts Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon together (they would make a good team in Wuthering Heights as well) as the couple who set off on a mistaken identity trial where Olivier's barrister thinks he is arranging the divorce of Oberon's husband because of her staying in his hotel room ...It is a story that's been done a lot, and often better than this, but the playing of the leads means there is a certain amount of comedy and a bit of a mischievous spark from Oberon, who knows she has to catch this particular fish, but hatches an elaborate plan to do so.