George Marshall directs Fred MacMurray & Eleanor Parker in a film about a radio announcer who is going to get married to a wealthy woman he doesn't love. Richard Carlson is a best friend & doctor who schemes to not tell Fred he has inherited 2 million dollars. Parker is the woman who is in love with him, while Carlson loves the wealthy woman Fred is trying to marry.
This film is the classic screwball comedy mess up & works pretty well. Fred MacMurray is the romantic lead straight man who all the others play off & he does it pretty well in this one. The closing sequence gets pretty wild as everything which the film builds up too all go off at the same time.
It might have worked better in the 1940's but still is OK in 1951. This movie shows how slowly television is getting started as it still has a hotel bar that only has a radio. Trains are still the dominate form of transportation here too. All this is period appropriate for the early 1950's.
This film is the classic screwball comedy mess up & works pretty well. Fred MacMurray is the romantic lead straight man who all the others play off & he does it pretty well in this one. The closing sequence gets pretty wild as everything which the film builds up too all go off at the same time.
It might have worked better in the 1940's but still is OK in 1951. This movie shows how slowly television is getting started as it still has a hotel bar that only has a radio. Trains are still the dominate form of transportation here too. All this is period appropriate for the early 1950's.