It's more than possible that when this movie was released it got lost in the shuffle simply because there was so much more of the same - screwball comedy - out there, most of it with old hands, Grant, Lombard, etc, who had polished the genre to within an inch of its life. But seen today when polish is thin on the ground and Real stars have given way to ersatz it comes across as a minor gem. The Epstein twins concocted a soufflé from leftovers of It Happened One Night, added a touch of spin and voila; take one madcap heiress bent on marrying the wrong man, add one charter pilot about to lose his plane, strike a deal for the pilot to kidnap said heiress and return her to poppa in return for cash in hand. Have the plane come down by a ghost town and leave them to let nature take its course. Bouquets all round.
Review of The Bride Came C.O.D.
