I haven’t watched any movies for yonks because of reasons, but I wanna get back in the saddle again, so here we go with another movie chosen by Hazel Flagg:
This DVD is very unrestored.
This is quite odd — I mean, not the plot. It’s about a young woman who’s won some money and is pretending to be rich, and also a European prince who’s pretending to be a bellboy. Hilarity ensues. You know, the normal stuff.
But the pacing… it’s like every gag arrives ten seconds too late? I mean, I’m enjoying this, but it’s just odd.
It’s funny, but I laughed out only once — at the final hat gag.
Frances Dee is a lot of fun, but Francis Lederer? Eh. I can just imagine the movie with, say, Cary Grant instead — it would have been a very different thing. It’s not that he’s bad, but there just isn’t any chemistry.
The Gay Deception. William Wyler. 1935. ⚃
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