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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Olivier acts according to the requirements of his role, and the suggestion made isn't of bourgeois uprightness, but rather of naivety (because in cinema, save that you actually read the script, the character means the actor, regardless of what you guess or get about what the character should be supposed to look like), Morton Selten calls the barrister a jackass; he made me think of March and, since this is a British screwball, of how March should of made his role in a '30s screwball along the way shown here by Olivier. The Englishman was obviously more _telluric, more earthly than March, but also how deprived of the dreaded blandness is his acting! (I mean it's not only that March wasn't as handsome; his acting too left to be desired, in the '30s screwball I am thinking of.) And it doesn't take him long to outshine his costar, till she seems quite limited; with him, you get the feeling that you watch one of the greatest actors ever. Being a farce, the script doesn't offer much as characterizations.A sitcom with a variety of means (the gags in the hotel scenes) and an average script, unpretentiously efficient, with a certain heartlessness and coldness, but also nicely understated, and (if not artful) it's crafty and likable, and a very good place to become fond of the leading actor, larger than life over a modest storyline; Olivier was indeed mind-blowing. Binnie Barnes, the unfaithful manipulative adventuress, statuesquely sexy.Will the fresh husband become like the cheated Lord, or like the shrewd judge? There are no signs that the latter stopped recognizing his own youthful steps in the newfound enthusiasm of his niece's husband.If the farce seems basic, the movie is superior; I have found amusing the gags, and appealing the smoothness and ability. In this sitcom is found one of the basic premises of the screwball: a woman's determination and initial decision to marry a yet unaware man; from the beginning, she knows she'll marry him.

You very rarely get to see Laurence Olivier do comedy but in this he does his very best. Merle Oberon is the star of this for sure but the real star of this film is the story, and the chaos of it.With this fun little English gem you'll get a comedy of errors. You know the kind. The one where all each character has to do is ask 1 basic question and the whole confusion would be solved. Not in this one. Without the question, we get keystone cops of a romantic nature.The simple idea is that a heavy fog rolls into London and everyone has to find a place to stay for the night. Olivier stops and finds a room at a hotel where a Victorian themed ball is going on. These attendees find out too late to get a room at the hotel...except ms. Oberon. She finagles her way into Olivier's room and from this, chaos comes soon after. A fun kinda chaos.Watch this and see what a girl can do to a guy just by batting her eyelashes and using her "feminine wiles" to get what she wants....in a real cute way. See why no man in the world has a chance against a beautiful and charming woman. For any guy out there, see this and you'll wanna be Olivier. You'll wanna be charmed by Merle Oberon.

In rather wishy-washy Technicolor, this comedy of manners which the US did so well, and the UK less so, puts Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon together (they would make a good team in Wuthering Heights as well) as the couple who set off on a mistaken identity trial where Olivier's barrister thinks he is arranging the divorce of Oberon's husband because of her staying in his hotel room ...It is a story that's been done a lot, and often better than this, but the playing of the leads means there is a certain amount of comedy and a bit of a mischievous spark from Oberon, who knows she has to catch this particular fish, but hatches an elaborate plan to do so.

At one point in the film, Olivier is cross examining a woman accused of adultery during a divorce trial. She is acting coy and Olivier goes off into a rant against all women. Below is a quote of his words."Woman has a religion of her own, the ancient creed of womanhood. There is only one article of faith, but every woman sincerely and steadfastly believes in it, and that is she is the unique and perfect achievement of the human species, being especially evolved to be above criticism, beyond reproach and outside the law. Man in his folly and kindness has been bamboozled into accepting woman as a rational being and has granted her emancipation on that assumption. What is his reward? Modern woman has disowned womanhood and refuses man's obligations. She demands freedom but won't accept responsibility. She insists upon time to develop her personality and she spends it on cogitating on which part of her body to paint next. By independence, she means idleness. By equality, she means carrying on like Catherine the Great. By companionship with man, she means that he should wait upon her hand and foot. Modern woman has no loyalty, decency or justice; no endurance, reticence or self-control; no affection, fine-feelings or mercy. In short, she is unprincipled, relentless and exacting; idle, unproductive and tedious; unimaginative, humorless and vain; vindictive, undignified and weak, and the sooner man takes out his whip again, the better for sanity and progress."