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Siskoid

With Lubitsch at the controls, Billy Wilder involved with the script, and cutey-pie Claudette Colbert starring, the only thing holding Bluebeard's Eighth Wife back is its outmoded sexual politics. Jealousy traps, consent problems, even a little bit of spanking doesn't quite play as well as it used to. Still, there are so many charming gags, well executed, that you can't help but have fun with it. Colbert is a poor French heiress (she was born over there and her French is actually quite good!) who falls for rich American stockbroker Gary Cooper, but feels pushed into a lop-sided marriage in part by her spendthrift of a father, played by a surprisingly-not-too-broad Edward Everett Horton. David Niven is also in it as a possible spoiler. So the question is, will Colbert find a way to equalize the relationship with a man she's shocked to find has had (as the title implies) seven failed marriages before her? Well, what do you think? The way they go about it offers some amusement, cracking dialog, and plenty of twists and turns.

2 years 8 months ago

Sien

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1 year 4 months ago

fungus

Why this one isn't in one of the lists I really cannot understand. Such a great and funny screwball comedy.

12 years 5 months ago