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Overview

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6.6/10   3,163 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Norman Krasna (story)
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Release Date:
31 January 1941 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Lombard and Montgomery Get Hitched As They're Getting Unhitched ! [DVD USA] more
Plot:
Not a typical Hitchcock movie, this is a comedy about a couple who learn that their marriage was not valid. full summary | full synopsis
User Comments:
Underrated more (57 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Carole Lombard ... Ann

Robert Montgomery ... David
Gene Raymond ... Jeff

Jack Carson ... Chuck
Philip Merivale ... Mr. Custer
Lucile Watson ... Mrs. Custer
William Tracy ... Sammy
Charles Halton ... Mr. Deever
Esther Dale ... Mrs. Krausheimer
Emma Dunn ... Martha
Betty Compson ... Gertie
Patricia Farr ... Gloria
William Edmunds ... Proprietor Lucy's
Pamela Blake ... Lily (as Adele Pearce)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
95 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
South Korea:12 | USA:TV-G | Canada:PG (video rating) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:7 (1945) | Spain:T | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #6670) | UK:U (video rating) | UK:A (original rating) | UK:U

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Trivia:
Alfred Hitchcock's only screwball comedy. He was talked into directing it by Carole Lombard. more
Quotes:
Mr. Harry Deever: I guess she's changed some huh?
[refering to David's wife]
David: Well, she's... changed a little.
Mr. Harry Deever: She once chased a dogcatcher half a mile with a baseball bat.
David: Well, she hasn't changed as much as you think.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths (2004) (V) more
Soundtrack:
The Sidewalks of New York more

FAQ

Do Mr & Mrs Smith have first names?
Explain why the Smiths' marriage has suddenly been found to be invalid?
Does director Alfred Hitchcock have a cameo in "Mr & Mrs Smith"?
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28 out of 36 people found the following comment useful.
Underrated, 14 October 2001
8/10
Author: zetes from Saint Paul, MN

It's unfair to look over this film because it is not a true Hitchcock film. It's still a great film, and a great screwball comedy. It is very funny and contains at least two of the funniest scenes I've ever seen, the one where Robert Montgomery plans to have premarital sex with Lombard, thinking she doesn't know that they aren't married, and the restaurant scene, where Montgomery pretends to talk to a really pretty girl who's sitting next to him. You can just barely see Hitchcock in this film - there are a few marvelous camera movements and angles that seem like Hitchcock was sighing, saying, "God, I'm bored!" The two leads, Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery, are wonderful. Everyone else, Gene Raymond as Jeff and Jack Carson as Chuck (he's especially hilarious; I wish he had had even more scenes!), and everyone else, too, is constantly hitting bullseyes.

Unfortunately, in the last 20 or 30 minutes of the film, it begins to fall apart, after the plot moves to Lake Placid. First off, it's begins to grow tiresome. Lombard is starting to come off as unnecessarily cruel. The faux drunken mumblings of Montgomery aren't as funny as they're supposed to be. Jeff's parents are getting in the way. At least the final scene makes up for some of that! 8/10.

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