The Princess Comes Across is fine example of how Hollywood in the classic period could ruin a good comedy by mixing genres, in this case a screwball comedy and a murder mystery. The Thin Man (1934) and its sequels were so popular that that particular pastiche seemed logical and a proven money-maker for the studios.Continue reading “The Princess Comes Across (1936)”
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Remember the Night (1940)
Remember the Night should have been a great comedy. It was written by Preston Sturges and directed by Mitchell Leisen. Three years earlier they had collaborated on Easy Living, one of the classics of the period. But this one is a mess. There’s hardly a trace of Sturges’s sophisticated wit and cynicism, and Leisen’s directingContinue reading “Remember the Night (1940)”