Monday, November 27, 2017

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)


RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Bros.)

Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard are a married couple going through some bumps after three years. After a mishap leaves them legally single again, they decide to test each other's resolve. She gets a job and accepts a date from her lawyer, while he feigns disinterest and tries to cook up a way to reconcile. They all end up together at a ski resort where the opportunity to do that presents itself. Silly, breezy Hitchcock that seems like a complete waste of his time. The two lead character's juvenile antics are tiresome. I kind of hoped they would not get back together to spare us all the pain.

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