Simply stated...one of the funniest, craziest and most brilliant comedies of all-time....for shear laughs....it's Preston Sturges' funniest movies.
You can easily read the plot-line from the other reviewers, but I want to make a point about some of the performances.
Rudy Vallee, previously rather stiff on film, is simply hysterical in this movie. For my money, he should have at least been nominated for the Best Supporting Actor category for the Academy Awards. One of the most brilliant supporting comedy roles I've ever seen.
Mary Astor and Sig Arno are brilliant as well.
It's also amazing that those idiots at Paramount allowed Sturges to slip through their fingers....not long after this film was finished.
It's now available on DVD....a strip-down edition with no features whatsoever...and also part of the Preston Sturges boxset.
By the way, if the frantic opening over the credit are confusing, just note that both of them are identical twins!
You can easily read the plot-line from the other reviewers, but I want to make a point about some of the performances.
Rudy Vallee, previously rather stiff on film, is simply hysterical in this movie. For my money, he should have at least been nominated for the Best Supporting Actor category for the Academy Awards. One of the most brilliant supporting comedy roles I've ever seen.
Mary Astor and Sig Arno are brilliant as well.
It's also amazing that those idiots at Paramount allowed Sturges to slip through their fingers....not long after this film was finished.
It's now available on DVD....a strip-down edition with no features whatsoever...and also part of the Preston Sturges boxset.
By the way, if the frantic opening over the credit are confusing, just note that both of them are identical twins!