Zippy and zing-ridden Preston Sturges script pretty much laying out the blueprint for his own later “Great McGinty.” A babyfaced Cary Grant falls for the visiting Princess of some made up country (Freedonia?) but is she really just an out-of-work actress who can’t afford the turkey legs at the automat? Sylvia Sidney is adoreable and the scenario (not only repeated in “Great McGinty” but in Kurasawa’s “Kagemusha” and Ivan Retiman’s “Dave”) is filled with laughs and faux tension. A real find.
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Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
He is the host of ENGAGE: The Official Star Trek Podcast, a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and challenges you to a game of backgammon.
