I like Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, and Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre are good fun, too. Cary Grant alas is just way over the top.
It’s an absolute delight. I can’t get enough of it. Would have loved to have seen the stage play version when Boris Karloff actually played the evil Brewster brother.
Phil-Did he really? I wondered when during the movie they kept making Boris Karloff jokes. That’s interesting.
Roscoe-I dunno. I like my comedy over-the-top. This is a movie my family always watches around Christmastime.
This is perhaps the only Capra film I enjoy pretty much unreservedly. Although I haven’t seen it in a few years.
I like good over the top comedy too. I just think Grant in this film is bad over the top.
No, you’re not the only one, Quentin. I love the film as well. I’ve always been a Cary Grant fan and he really excels here.
Roscoe, the whole point is that he’s over-the-top … ever heard of the word, “parody”? If the film had some kind of conflict of mood, I could perhaps understand the reason for seeing Grant’s performance as over-the-top or out-of-place, but the entire film is insane so he fits in perfectly. And what’s more over-the-top than Peter Lorre?
And what is “bad over-the-top” exactly? Who could’ve played Grant’s part better? Did you feel it should’ve been more serious or more dry humour or something? That statement just really confuses me.
quentin
Am I the only person that loves this film? Not thought provoking on any level, but a gazilliion pounds of fun and laughs from start to finish. Not a movie with the most number of laughs, but it does have a lot, and it’s so much fun you won’t want it to end. What does anyone else think?