Starts slow and looks predictable: a repressed girl is trapped in her dreary life in a starchy WASPy small town surrounded by small-minded bigots and a big city playboy is going to romance her and melt her and liberate her etc etc and there will some good laughts along the way.
Ho hum.
But wait! It's not that simple!
And we'll leave it there so as not to spoil it.
Dunne and Douglas have great chemistry and the supporting cast is excellent.
(Actually, this starts out feeling a whole lot like _Ninotchka_, where you have stone-faced heroine being courted by Douglas the smart-aleck Parisian playboy.)
This movie is a hidden gem.
Probably because only true movie lovers even recognize the names of the two stars and the writers and directors. That is just the way it goes today.
Ho hum.
But wait! It's not that simple!
And we'll leave it there so as not to spoil it.
Dunne and Douglas have great chemistry and the supporting cast is excellent.
(Actually, this starts out feeling a whole lot like _Ninotchka_, where you have stone-faced heroine being courted by Douglas the smart-aleck Parisian playboy.)
This movie is a hidden gem.
Probably because only true movie lovers even recognize the names of the two stars and the writers and directors. That is just the way it goes today.