Rent Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)

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1h 31min
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Synopsis:
David (Robert Montgomery) and Ann (Carole Lombard) manage to keep happily married by following one rule: should they quarrel, neither one was to leave the bedroom until they had finally made-up. Sometimes this rule kept David away from his law office for a week, but his partner, Gene Raymond (Jeff Custer), did not complain. After one such session lasting three days, David and Ann finally make up and he goes to his office. His first visitor is the man who first married them, who informs David that, owing to a technicality, he and his wife are not legally married.
Actors:
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Directors:
Producers:
Harry E. Edington
Writers:
Norman Krasna
Studio:
Universal Pictures
Genres:
Classics, Comedy, Romance
Collections:
10 Films to Watch if You Like To Be or Not to Be, Hitchcock in the 1940s
BBFC:
Release Date:
28/04/2003
Run Time:
91 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
Subtitles:
None
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
B & W

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Screwball comedy. - Mr. and Mrs. Smith review by Steve

Spoiler Alert
22/02/2021

Before Hitchcock left for America he expressed a wish to work with Carole Lombard. A year later she had a comedy already in production at RKO and offered it to the Englishman. And so the Master of Suspense met the Queen of Screwball.

Lombard and Robert Montgomery discover three years after their wedding that they are not married after all. And she decides she wants to be single again and play the field.

So, pure screwball, and the star is on the more familiar ground. She's as great as ever, and Jack Carson also scores in a familiar supporting role as an amiable klutz.

It's a good comedy with a few genuine laughs but I suspect even a film student would struggle to detect the hand of the Master in this. Maybe the brief disorientated point of view shot on an out of control fairground ride, might be claimed as a Hitchcock touch. It has a lot of his understated humour, but this is foremost a vehicle for the frantic comic persona of the  wonderful Ms. Lombard.

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