A pretty mediocre Ernst Lubitsch comedy. It's enjoyable as a modest diversion but you can see why no one ever mentions this along with the better known Lubitsch films.
This does have that naughty Lubitsch touch, most obviously in the plot thread that finds bored wife Merle Oberon getting it on with grumpy misanthrope Burgess Meredith behind her husband's back. The rest is a tired storyline about Oberon and her husband (Melvyn Douglas) trying to figure out how to engineer an amicable divorce until Oberon learns her lesson, which is that she should just stay with her husband. All of the actors are charming, but none of this ever evokes more than a modest chuckle here and there.
"That Uncertain Feeling" received an Oscar nomination for Best Dramatic Score in 1941, but then again there were 20(!) nominees that year, so who didn't?
Grade: B-
This does have that naughty Lubitsch touch, most obviously in the plot thread that finds bored wife Merle Oberon getting it on with grumpy misanthrope Burgess Meredith behind her husband's back. The rest is a tired storyline about Oberon and her husband (Melvyn Douglas) trying to figure out how to engineer an amicable divorce until Oberon learns her lesson, which is that she should just stay with her husband. All of the actors are charming, but none of this ever evokes more than a modest chuckle here and there.
"That Uncertain Feeling" received an Oscar nomination for Best Dramatic Score in 1941, but then again there were 20(!) nominees that year, so who didn't?
Grade: B-