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Shouldn't this film be 60 minutes long?

I can't fathom this world where men have no inhibitions about blatantly hitting on another man's wife, yet the tiniest gesture between the unmarried (sharing a cab, untying a bow tie) is grounds for divorce. Oh well, I liked the parts with rhyming dialogue and that scene where Jeanette McDonald was on the phone in her scanty slip was h-a-w-t.

10 months ago

Jamiku

A remake of Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle.

1 year 11 months ago

Siskoid

One Hour with You is a very silly marital comedy signed Ernst Lubitsch, with the great on-screen couple of Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald who always seem to have such fun together. As a musical, it has fun, bubbly songs, and indeed, has a lot of rhyming dialog not accompanied by music, which you don't see very often. I find that kind of thing pleasant to the ear, and it creates a heightened reality where, you know what, even if adultery is involved, all CAN be forgiven at the end, because nothing is serious. Not that there's necessarily BEEN adultery. We're pre-Code and there's certainly a lot of lust openly going around, the furthest it goes is kissing another man's wife and - shockingly! - walking around with one's tie undone. Chevalier isn't as amusingly cartoony as Lubitsch would later allow him (in The Merry Widow, for example), but he's still quite amusing. And I mean, who would seriously pick Mitzi over Jeanette? As a comedy, it tickles despite the slower beat and it's over before you know it, and hopefully before you want it to be.

4 years 1 month ago

3eyes

Uncertain availability on Netflix; try Hulu Plus or KG.

9 years 7 months ago

Thorkell

"An Adolph for a Mitzi." :)

11 years 1 month ago