Posted on 01/02/2024 3:57:45 PM PST by simpson96
Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye’s report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.
Preston Sturges' "Unfaithfully Yours" (1948 - Rex Harrison & Linda Darnell)
Like Screwball Hitchcock, with a great format around three pieces of music which sets up an even greater finale. A hilarious comedy about men's ego and cruelty and imagined fears, and how that very ego can drive us both to greatness and ruin. It's brilliant in the first hour, but when it goes FULL slapstick in the last 30 minutes, that's when it's elevated into something masterful. Sturges is so good at making movies about men accidentally failing upwards, and the great accident here is so clever and original that even if I didn't like this movie, I'd have to respect it as a genius idea.
*ping*
I love this movie......so funny.
Dudley Moore was in a movie of the same title.
I wonder if it was an attempted remake?
It was.
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