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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780646681
Feature: All aboard for a spinning marriage-go-round! Cary Grant, the screen's ideal combination of romantic hunk and comedy buffoon, plays flabbergasted Nick. Radiant Irene Dunne, Grant's The Awful Truth and Penny Serenade co-star, plays the returned wife who cagily sets out to reclaim her former life. And Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick add to the marital mixup as Nick goes from having one wife to two to
Format: Closed-captioned, Black & White, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780646681
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Turner Home Ent
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
MPN: T6749
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 01, 2004
Running Time: 88 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: May 17, 1940
Features:- All aboard for a spinning marriage-go-round! Cary Grant, the screen's ideal combination of romantic hunk and comedy buffoon, plays flabbergasted Nick. Radiant Irene Dunne, Grant's The Awful Truth and Penny Serenade co-star, plays the returned wife who cagily sets out to reclaim her former life. And Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick add to the marital mixup as Nick goes from having one wife to two to
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All aboard for a spinning marriage-go-round! Cary Grant the screen's ideal combination of romantic hunk and comedy buffoon plays flabbergasted Nick. Radiant Irene Dunne Grant's The Awful Truth and Penny Serenade co-star plays the returned wife who cagily sets out to reclaim her former life. And Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick add to the marital mixup as Nick goes from having one wife to two to none to one. The right one. What romantic comedy has joined together let no one put asunder. Of all the giddy screwball comedies ever made this remains an enduring favorite.Running Time: 88 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 053939674927
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That delightful couple from The Awful Truth, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, revisit the world of marital confusion. Presuming his wife to be dead, Grant remarries--on the same day that his bedraggled spouse (that's Dunne) returns. Seems she's been stranded on a desert island for seven years (with strapping hunk Randolph Scott, too). The moment Cary spots his resurrected wife, as an elevator door slides shut, is one of the many funny gags in this comedy, and the final sequence is memorably wacky. Awful Truth director Leo McCarey prepared the film, but it was directed by author Garson Kanin. The two stars are so adept at farce, and so effortless in conveying their characters' mutual affection, that the movie triumphs over the whopper of a plot device. It was supposed to be remade as the ill-fated Marilyn Monroe film Something's Got to Give, and ended up Move Over, Darling with Doris Day. --Robert Horton
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This is often compared to "The Awful Truth", which also starred Grant and Dunne and it shouldn't be. It never attempts to mimic the screwball comedy of that movie. They are both very good comedies and deserve to be judged on their own merits and not compared with the other film.
Irene Dunne is great as Ellen Wagstaff; the supposedly dead wife of Cary Grant. She had been shipwrecked while on an expedition seven years earlier. The family dog greets her upon her return, but her two children think she is a stranger. They believe their mother to be dead and she can't find the words to tell them that she is their mother.
She discovers that her husband, Nick (Cary Grant) has just been married to Bianca (Gail Patrick), and they are on their honeymoon (at the same place he and Ellen went when the got married). They are checking in when he first sees Ellen; after escorting his new bride to their room he returns to the front desk to get a room for Ellen. Nick spends the remainder of the honeymoon going from room to room. Donald McBride is very good as the hotel clerk who tries to accommodate his guests and at the same time show his moral indignation with the "musical room" situation of Grant's character and his wife(s). This sets the tone for future scenes in which one of the spouses is trying to hide something from the other, and Grant's trying to keep Bianca in the dark even after an insurance agent shows up threatening to have him arrested for fraud. (One of the movie's biggest flaws is that Patrick's character is never fully developed thus leaving out potentially funny scenes that may have allowed the movie to stand on its own merit and not compared to the earlier film).
While he still loves Ellen he is unsure what to do or what to say or whom to say it to. In a way he's afraid of his snooty, high-strung new bride. Ellen attempts to tease him about remarrying saying "I can't turn my back on you for a second", which makes Nick feel guilty. His guilt turns to suspicions when he finds she has neglected to mention that she was on the island with a man.
When he confronts her, she tries to pass off a short, balding shoe clerk (Chester Clute), as her island companion, Stephen. She's unaware that he's already seen the tall, athletic Stephen (Randolph Scott), at the Pacific Club. When Ellen says she can live without either of them she finds herself going for an unexpected swim. Nick's then shows his jealousy by delivering some of the movies funniest one-liners aimed at the dumb-as-dirt Stephen.
Another performance worth mentioning is that of Granville Bates as the cantankerous and somewhat bemused judge trying who tries to sort the whole mess out.
We always know that Grant and Dunne will wind up together at then end but it fun watching them get there.
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Absolutely great movie about a woman who returns to her husband after being marooned on an island for seven years. Cary Grant is priceless in the "elevator scene". A little dated for 2009 but still a wonderful old film worth an evening of popcorn munching and just relaxing.
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Since this film was made, the plot has been copied, changed around and generally abominated, by more than one script writer, film-maker, or author. I would be lying if I pretended to KNOW that this version was the original. I CAN say, it is the best I have seen, of the many copies.
Both Cary Grant and Irene Dunne 'feed' off one another remarkably well and produce a movie that is truly enjoyable - bearing in mind the age it was made. Modern film-makers have the advantage of high technology to enhance even the most mundane of movies. This film was made honestly, with old fashioned methods and 'in the available light'. It is a Classic, in the age of Classics.
It deserves being seen.
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Even in 2009, this movie is one of the funniest, wittiest movies ever. The story is joyful and full of life, and the casting was perfect. Even the children in this comedy have very clever parts and are not pushed aside with the 'grown-ups' antics. My favorite scene is when Mr. Grant is imagining Randolph Scott's "Adam" twirling around on a trapeze, taunting Mr. Grant with all sorts of images of Adam and his wife on the island. Priceless! You will not be disappointed, especially if you love Cary Grant and the ever saucy Irene Dunn.
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There was a shipwreck and Nicolas (Cary Grant) gets separated from his wife Ellen (Irene Dunne.) She was never seen again. Seven years later Nick, widower with two children and living with his mother finds love again, Bianca (Gail Patrick.)
Now it is time to start a new life with Bianca; so Nick goes to court and has Ellen legally declared dead and in the same breath marries Bianca. But wait what is this? Ellen returns that very day. The complications begin. Wait, there is more Ellen was not stranded alone on an island there was Stephen, sort of an Adam and Eve thing. The story only gets better from here.
Be sure to watch the remake of this movie "Move Over Darling" with Games Gardner and Doris Day.
Move Over Darling ~ Doris Day
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