I watched this as a curiosity - a Hitchcock film I'd never heard of. And, indeed, it was curious. Risqué for 1941, clearly. But in our more sophisticated (or should that be "crude") era, it's just light-weight in the extreme.
The premise of the film is that, due to a technicality, the married couple are not married and, when the "husband" tries to trick his "wife" in to one night of "illicit" passion, she takes umbrage and spends the next hour and fifteen minutes of the movie having a long, drawn out hissy fit. The punishment hardly fits the crime. It's like: Oh, get over it, girl!
To say the plot is thin is an understatement. It might have worked as a single half hour episode of a sitcom but stretched to a full-length movie you can almost hear it groan under the strain.
Still the leads are charming and make it bearable. It's just an unremarkable outing for some first-rate talent.
The premise of the film is that, due to a technicality, the married couple are not married and, when the "husband" tries to trick his "wife" in to one night of "illicit" passion, she takes umbrage and spends the next hour and fifteen minutes of the movie having a long, drawn out hissy fit. The punishment hardly fits the crime. It's like: Oh, get over it, girl!
To say the plot is thin is an understatement. It might have worked as a single half hour episode of a sitcom but stretched to a full-length movie you can almost hear it groan under the strain.
Still the leads are charming and make it bearable. It's just an unremarkable outing for some first-rate talent.