Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)

Forgive Alfred Hitchcock for making an imperfect film about an imperfect marriage, when he himself was married to the perfect woman.  “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” is Hitchcock’s first slapstick comedy, and, many would say - thankfully - it was also his last. Made as an alleged…

theriverjordan

Action! - The Master & The Fan: Hitchcock's Bumping Road To Mastering Suspense You know what? Of all the dreadful romantic films I've had to endure by Hitchcock, this is actually his best work in the genre It's funny, it has charm, and at times it nearly seems to have…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery antagonizing and practically torturing one another for 95 minutes can only end up as a 4+ star from me!!!!! Laughed out loud at so many scenes. Especially the pizzeria. The cat won’t eat soup. There’s so many notable gags that I loved in…

Adrian

Cinematic Time Capsule 1941 Marathon - Film #10 ”From now on we’re just friends.” “Not necessarily.” As light and airy as a Safe Parachute drop, even though it sometimes tends to stall in the middle. Hitchcock’s only pure American made comedy is an interesting…

📀 Cammmalot 📀

Alfred Hitchcock conduz esse filme com Carole Lombard e Robert Montgomery protagonizando um casal que descobre depois de três anos que o casamento deles é inválido. Uma comédia romântica longe da sua natureza e mais perto de um drama de reconquista de um homem que enquanto…

Rodrigo Homsi

A rare foray into straight up comedy for Alfred Hitchcock. Mr & Mrs Smith focuses on a married couple that find out they are not legally married due to a legal technicality. Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery get to have fun as the warring couple, with the situation…

Slig001

Just one tiny observation: Hitchcock handles slapstick surprisingly well. He should have made more comedies.

Lara Pop

Screwball comedy is inherently chaotic. The best screwballs have a sense of danger. As if the rapid fire lines are improved. Hitchcock was fully capable of doing comedy but his approach to film generally was so controlled and calculated that he didn’t really mesh with the…

Chris Hughes

Alfred Hitchcock often very successfully put humor in many of his thrillers. But when he tried himself on a full-out screwball-comedy, the end product was one of his most forgettable movies and his only venture into that genre. I very rarely heard anything positive about…

Gregor Kreyca