Because this is a Preston Sturges film the dialogue is so fast, witty, and great. I loved Rudy Vallée’s performance as John D. Hackensacker III. He’s such a sweet dope. I feel like the entire movie is a set up for the final joke at the end which I found spectacular, so meta, and way ahead of it’s time. My main issue is how the film deals with the absurd. It presents like it takes place in the real world, but everyone behaves so erratically they feel like they should be in a Mel Brooks film instead. I’m also shocked that this (and for that matter many of Sturges’s films) got made considering the topics of divorce and leaving her husband.
