This is quite funny. I had forgotten that Hitchcock could be this amusing.
The joke goes on for far too long, though.
Mr and Mrs Smith. Alfred Hitchcock. 1941.
One Of Those Things
That’s the problem with getting cocktail recipes off of the net. Most of them aren’t very good. And this one looks gruesome as well.
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This is officially the 174th best film ever. I think it seems rather self-indulgent and melodramatic. I don’t find the “George” character very convincing.
Yes, yes, he’s an annoying twit, but can anybody really be as annoyingly twittish (that’s a word) as this? Perhaps it would have resolved itself in the last hour, but I kinda doubt it. The studio famously cut the last 50 minutes and shot a new happy ending, and it’s even more awful than you’d imagine. It’s laugh out Ell Oh Ell awful.
But it’s a rather pretty film.
The Magnificent Ambersons. Orson Welles. 1942.
Pegu
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Hey! Jean Arthur! I like her.
They’re aiming for screwball comedy, but it goes kinda embarrassing at times. Eek. It’s really funny. It’s also amusing how they (as is common in these war time films) weave in “inconspicuous” propaganda scenes about how union busting is patriotic and so on.
The More the Merrier. George Stevens. 1943.
Parkside Fizz
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Much floppy. 
Again with the floppy! 
Wow! 
Very noir.
Laura. Otto Preminger. 1944.
Parisian
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This is rarely laugh out LOL, but it’s plenty witty.
The Thin Man Goes Home. Richard Thorpe. 1945.
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