I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Country: US
Technical: bw 105m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan
Synopsis:
A French officer and American female counterpart who cannot stand the sight of each other eventually fall in love and marry; however, consummation must be deferred until he is smuggled into the United States as a war bride.
Review:
A mite sluggish compared with Bringing Up Baby, say, and Grant never really convinces as a Frenchman, much less a Frenchwoman, but once it gets going there is much of the old Hawks to savour. The first half is taken up with the impediment of their mutual antagonism and, once that is unmasked for the classic 'unreformed male vs. emancipated female' banter that it is, then it is the turn of officialdom to keep them apart. Grant is on fine form, and Sheridan is an excellent foil, the relaxed good humour of their scenes together at times skirting improvisation.
Country: US
Technical: bw 105m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan
Synopsis:
A French officer and American female counterpart who cannot stand the sight of each other eventually fall in love and marry; however, consummation must be deferred until he is smuggled into the United States as a war bride.
Review:
A mite sluggish compared with Bringing Up Baby, say, and Grant never really convinces as a Frenchman, much less a Frenchwoman, but once it gets going there is much of the old Hawks to savour. The first half is taken up with the impediment of their mutual antagonism and, once that is unmasked for the classic 'unreformed male vs. emancipated female' banter that it is, then it is the turn of officialdom to keep them apart. Grant is on fine form, and Sheridan is an excellent foil, the relaxed good humour of their scenes together at times skirting improvisation.
Country: US
Technical: bw 105m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan
Synopsis:
A French officer and American female counterpart who cannot stand the sight of each other eventually fall in love and marry; however, consummation must be deferred until he is smuggled into the United States as a war bride.
Review:
A mite sluggish compared with Bringing Up Baby, say, and Grant never really convinces as a Frenchman, much less a Frenchwoman, but once it gets going there is much of the old Hawks to savour. The first half is taken up with the impediment of their mutual antagonism and, once that is unmasked for the classic 'unreformed male vs. emancipated female' banter that it is, then it is the turn of officialdom to keep them apart. Grant is on fine form, and Sheridan is an excellent foil, the relaxed good humour of their scenes together at times skirting improvisation.