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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Also known as "My Love for Yours", this romantic comedy starts off promisingly, but the plot quickly runs out of ideas. Alas, even though new characters are introduced, nothing much is made of them. Although the movie was obviously produced on a sizable budget, plodding direction by Edward H. Griffith doesn't help. Fred MacMurray obviously thought little of both script and director. He does little more than stand around and say his lines. This habit seems to have irked photographer Ted Tetzlaff who not only gives MacMurray some very unflattering angles, but actually puts him in the dark in scenes that were otherwise overlit. Allan Jones has very little to do and seems to have been added to the cast as a last- minute afterthought. Of the main adult players, only Madeleine Carroll registers well. Young Carolyn Lee, in her first of only four movies, has a large part which she carries off very professionally. Obviously she has a rapport with director Edward H. Griffith which some of the other players, particularly MacMurray, did not enjoy. Incidentally the title is misleading, We see practically zilch of Bali and the honeymoon itself doesn't occur until all the film's 95 minutes have virtually expired. The DVD is (or was) available in "Comedy Classics", one of the "50 Movie Mega-Pack" series.

Pretty much of a wreck of a film. Which is a shame, considering the talents of the beautiful Madeleine Carroll, the whimsical and as good as the best of movie comedians Fred MacMurray, the virtually unused Akim Tamiroff (save for the 2 scenes where he is cleaning the windows in heavy rain and again in heavy snow which I guess were supposed to be funny), the acerbic Helen Broderick. Too much of a back and forth kind of thing with the little moppet intruding her being into almost all the scenes, screeching and whining her lines giving child actors through out the world a bad name. Was it the director or just the forced energy of the child's own natural (or lack thereof) talents that insisted she display herself so annoyingly and endlessly into any potentially good moment of the movie. Give me Margaret O'Brien or Baby Leroy or Jackie "Butch" Jenkins or Dickie Moore or, of course, the multi-talented Temple any time and that would turn any movie around for the better. Maybe. But aside from that, not really much of a script, Carroll and MacMurray could not salvage any of it.

Beautiful blonde businesswoman Madeleine Carroll (as Gail Allen) doesn't think husbands are necessary. In fact, she's become rich and successful by remaining single. And, she wants to stay that way. Then, a restaurant fortune-teller predicts Ms. Carroll will meet a man, and have a child (apparently, the "7 of diamonds" means children). Immediately, Carroll meets aggressive Fred MacMurray (as Bill "Willie" Burnett), a rich white man from Bali. Checking the film's title should give you an idea about where this story is going.Amusingly, the film's original title "Are Husbands Necessary?" had to be disguarded when its star headed for divorce court. In real life, Carroll found additional husbands. Edward H. Griffith's interesting direction introduces Carroll's character with a clever showcasing of her legs, as they are admired by window-washer Akim Tamiroff; and later, MacMurray is introduced with phallic symbols. But, while interesting in certain respects, "Honeymoon in Bali" is a fairly dreadful celebration of misogyny.An odd part of the film has Carroll dressing up a little girl in see-through lingerie, which the kid lifts for a startled MacMurray (her guardian). Then, the girl prays to "The Devil" on Carroll's telephone. Possibly, the devil bit was a comment on the girl's being from Bali. More weird is the trio's beach singing. Also, MacMurray throws Carroll on the ground. The location they chose for MacMurray's estate in Bali looks lush and lovely, and Benny Bartlett contributes a good bit (as "Jack" the singing telegram boy).**** Honeymoon in Bali (9/14/49) Edward H. Griffith ~ Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Allan Jones, Osa Massen

Can't you see them on Bali when the war in the Pacific heats up? Does our hero join the US military and leave, or stay on Bali to help in the defense? Do his wife and little girl flee successfully or get captured? There would be the big reunion scene where he is injured but still the same fellow no matter what the war has done to him externally. I can hardly watch a Pacific island movie in that era without picturing gunships and islands soon to be overrun by soldiers.I liked the little girl. Her not being able to sing the ditty right was a cute answer to Shirley Temple's extreme acumen. But kids in movies are a matter of taste.The part about a woman without a husband and child being like someone missing an arm was grim and insulting to her friend who was single and childless. What the priest and the window washer said, though, was quite good. In the Forties the message would be much more in favor of strong independent women, but during the war, movies didn't want to discourage Rosie the Riveter from performing her duties.On the whole I'd have to say some of it was good, some awful, and all of it predictable. The French woman and the window washer were the only characters I found interesting. What a plot device! Laying the movie out in the first few minutes with a psychic reading. Talk about a spoiler! And the little girl was just sort of thrown into the storyline without any preparation or foundation for her being there except as a way to show that a real woman is emotional and motherly. Of course women and men actually come in many variations. I think the movie tried to engage in a discussion of male and female roles in society and failed miserably because it was the same old story of a bossy repressed woman dominated by a strong unrepressed man who takes her from her career and turns her into a wife and mother, which is her happy ending. It makes me long for His Gal Friday, out the next year in 1940.