Strange Interlude (1932)

Strange Interlude is based on the play of the same title by famed playwright Eugene O’Neill. The feel and dramatic-ness of the stage play is carried over nicely into the film version starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable.

            Shearer plays Nina Leeds. In the beginning of the film she has lost the love of her life Gordon in World War I when his plane was shot down. To get over the loss she goes to work as a nurse in an army hospital. While working at the hospital she meets a doctor named Ned Darrell (Clark Gable). After a year of being away her father dies and to get over the pain of losing her father she marries a man named Sam who is very sweet and kind. Her friend Charlie who is not happy about Nina marrying another man but he was always too timid and shy to say his real feelings for her out loud and all she really thinks of him as is “Dear Old Charlie.”

            Nina really loves Sam but unfortunately she finds out that mental illness runs in his family. His mother has kept it from him all his life and he must never know and never have children. Nina is devastated but she really wants to have children to make Sam happy. She tells Ned about her situation. She and Ned agree to an affair to give Sam the child he wants. Ned and Nina begin to fall in love with each other and their lives become complicated. The next time they see each other their baby Gordon has been born.

            No one knows about Gordon not being Sam’s son until the end when Nina breaks down and tells Charlie who has suspected something between her and Ned for many years.

            Looking at the film today without the eye of a true film buff or classic film fan it is a bad soap opera completely over acted by everyone (especially at the end, even I had to cringe in shame). Well I guess the same could be said for me I found it over the top and the acting annoying most of the time. But I could not stop watching Strange Interlude I found myself really enjoying it and wanting to see more. What probably made the film addicting was the use of voiceovers for internal monologues. Just as in the play we get to hear what the characters are thinking. No one says what they really feel or think but we know and because we know what they really want to say and how they really feel we are left in a bit of suspense.

            Norma Shearer for how much she over acted I found her to be really good. Throughout the whole film Nina plays with the emotions and devotions of all three of the men in her life. She was manipulative and got what she wanted but she was never truly happy. Nina truly loved Ned not Sam. Shearer played all the emotions the character was feeling very well. You can tell with her facial expressions in certain scenes especially when the internal monologue is being played that she was a silent film actress she was able to show so much emotion. As much as I like Shearer her acting can be bothersome but I found she was at her calmest with her acting when she acted/spoke her voiceovers.

            Clark Gable was pretty much being his Clark Gable self. He was the macho guy with not too much emotion. But like some Gable films when he does need to show some sentimental emotion he does a very good job.

            I like Shearer and Gable together. They were in A Free Soul and Idiot’s Delight together as well. To me he seems like the sturdy acting anchor to Shearer’s over acting. My favorite scene between them is when they agree to the affair: Shearer looks at Gable so seductively and he gives  an even greater stare of lust right back. The sexual tension could be felt through the screen.

            I kind of felt bad for Sam and Charlie which I guess is what we are made to feel for them. Sam was the bumbling, kind, sweet man that no one could hurt because he would go crazy (literally). His sweetness is enough to make your teeth hurt and your blood boil. Ralph Morgan as Charlie reminded me too much of Clifton Webb as Waldo Lydecker in Laura so I thought nothing of him. Maureen O’Sullivan makes a short appearance at the end as Gordon’s fiancée and she even gets her own quick internal monologue.

            Strange Interlude is a very good early Hollywood pre-code film. The play by O’Neill was a bit more risqué but of course this was Hollywood back in the puritanical days even though it was the pre-code era. The film is even risqué for the time it was made no matter how much it had been censored (there is a part with Shearer walking around in a robe all seductive with one side hanging off her shoulder).  What really set me to liking the film is that it is not what we are expecting. We get this build up of oh- finally- Nina- and- Ned- are- going- to- tell- everyone- about- Gordon- and- run- away- with- each- other but they never do. I like the unexpected I like that twist. Audiences want to feel they are smarter than the film and think they know what will happen but with this we cannot outsmart the screenplay. Another thing I really like is that Sam and Gordon never find out the truth which is great because sometimes as proof with this film not telling people things brings the most drama. Nina and Ned were psychologically a mess from keeping their secret which was fantastic. With stories I always like to know what the character is thinking and feeling so I found the voiceovers very clever.

            Strange Interlude was not well received when it was first released in 1932. The story is outrageously intelligent: Nina, Ned, and Charlie are all psychologically and emotionally tormented over worrying about everyone else. Nina can never get over the loss of her first love Gordon, even at the end of the film when she is supposed to be in her old age she still has Gordon on her mind; Ned never got over Nina and was tortured by the fact that he could never be a real father to his son and that his son would never really know about him; Charlie tormented himself that he never could express his love for Nina and lost out on marrying her. This setup is still not typical for a film even today so I can understand why not too many people liked it which is a shame.

            If you like pre-code films and are interested in really getting to the minds of characters watch Strange Interlude… at least once. Currently available on DVD and to view on Youtube.



Alchemy



Alchemy was released in 2005 when computers and online dating and texting were just becoming a new fad. The movie is about a computer science professor who is in trouble of losing his position at the college he teaches at if he does publish his new experiment.

            Mal Downey (Tom Cavanagh) is the troubled computer teacher. In order to save his job and gain tenure the college tells him he must do an experiment and to somehow get it published... he has two weeks to complete the experiment. The premise of the experiment is can someone fall in love with a computer. Mal hires a professor Troy Rollins who is an expert on love and a girl named Samantha (Sarah Chalke). Samantha has to date both Troy and the computer. Mal has Samantha converse with the computer at first but then things needed to be turned up.

            Mal is publishing his article through a magazine his ex- girlfriend runs. The ex- girlfriend tells him that he has to somehow disguise himself and give an image to the computer. She has the magazine make a disguise for Mal to pass as a Frenchman named Jerry (which is the computer’s name). He will do everything that the computer tells him to say. Jerry has a very one sided emotion.  

            Samantha likes some qualities in both the real man and the computer man but she can no longer keep up with dating two men at the same time.

            Things eventually become nuts with Mal, Troy, and the computer confessing their love for Samantha.

            For those of you who have watched Scrubs you will enjoy watching Alchemy. Tom Cavanagh and Sarah Chalke have very good chemistry. They are not crazy like they were on Scrubs as Dan and Eliot but their funniness and their chemistry carries over into the movie. The whole cast is really good all the characters are a bit crazy. Celeste Holm is a panic as Mal’s grandmother. She keeps pestering him about being home on a Saturday night and if he has a girlfriend.

            I used to watch Scrubs so I liked Chalke and Cavanagh I was happy to see them as the main stars of the film but they were not the reasons why I wanted to see Alchemy. In the movie Samantha has a friend named Marissa who is played by Anna Belknap. Belknap is the reason why I watched this movie. If you do not know who Belknap is she plays Lindsay Monroe on CSI: NY (I am a FANATIC CSI: NY fan and a diehard Danny/Lindsay ‘shipper so if you are not a D/L fan or hate Lindsay Monroe as a character keep your comments to yourself or feel my wrath!!!). I adore her as an actress. I find her outrageously cute in the movie even though she is only in it for a total of five minutes.

            Alchemy has a great independent feel to it. I tend to find independent movies or as I like to call them “movies no one has ever seen” to be smarter and more clever. The cast is made up of actors that are not too well known unless maybe you watch certain TV shows or “movies that no one has ever seen” and are into the actors and actresses in it (Celeste Holm is the exception she has had a very long film career).

            The story is perfect for this age of computers where people are more comfortable chatting to someone they most likely will never meet. Each one of us has that someplace online be it a message board or Facebook or Twitter where we kind of let ourselves go and pour some of true selves out (look at me: I started this blog to be a movie nerd and I will admit I belong to two message boards for CSI: NY as well as some other shows). I really liked the aspect of Samantha dating two men who just so happened to have the qualities she was looking for in one man: Troy was charming and romantic but he never shut up while Jerry was really sweet and would listen to what she had to say but he was just really one sided.

            Alchemy is a good movie. The humor may be a bit dull to some. I suggest watching Alchemy if you ever come across it on TV.

Double Wedding (1937)



“Women don't like noble, self-sacrificing men. Women are not civilized like we are. They like bloodshed. They like forceful men, like me.”

            Double Wedding is the seventh film pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy. The film really does not hold a candle to all the other Powell and Loy outings. The plot is not that great and I found myself just wanting the film to end.

            Powell plays a bohemian actor named Charles Lodge who earns his money when he really needs it. He is currently teaching a young couple Irene and Waldo. Irene’s sister Margit Agnew (Loy) is a real bitch (being nice with my description here) she runs every detail of her sister’s life. Charles sees that Margit needs to live a little and not be such a serious person all the time. To get back at Margit and drive her sister crazy Irene says that she no longer loves Waldo but loves Charles who she says she is now going to marry. Charles goes along with the plot as long as it does not go too far. As Charles gets to know Margit he starts to fall in love with her even though she never lets up being a tight ass. Margit even starts to fall in love with Charles which is absolutely no big shock. I am sure you can guess how the film ends.

            The plot is a load of crap and sometimes just annoying to follow.

            Powell is nothing short of fantastic he was the only one who was tolerable. There was one part that was so perfect for him to play: Charles teaches Waldo how to be a real man since Waldo is a huge pushover. The scene is pretty much William Powell teaching someone to be a gentleman and I cannot think of anyone better to teach a man how to be charming and assertive in a good way. Another scene with Powell that had me cracking up is when Margit is yelling at Charles and he just sticks his pocket watch in his mouth because he is bored and is totally not listening to her. One more Powell scene to mention: he dresses up in a disguise and he looks like Matisse, haha.

            Now if you follow my blog or look through a lot of my posts I adore Myrna Loy I never have anything bad to say about her she was always fabulous. This is the first time I did not want to see Loy in any scene I just wanted her to go away! Her acting was great there was nothing wrong on that end but the character as I said is such a bitch!! Margit was an annoying control freak. There really was no reason for us to want her and Charles to get together other than the fact that they are Powell and Loy. She did have some good scenes but they were of course with Powell and when the script called for Margit to be a little nicer and a bit more human. I died laughing when Margit was getting on Charles’ nerves and he literally throws her out of his trailer! I give a lot of credit to Myrna Loy for that but it looked like she was a trooper and had fun.

            One of so many excellent scenes between the screen couple can be seen in Double Wedding: Charles is trying to be smooth and loosen Margit up. He goes over to her and touches her arm but she jerks away. I think this is such a good scene for them as actors they just played it so well especially Myrna Loy the way she jerked away and the face she gave Charles.

            Double Wedding for me felt like a chore to sit through. I found it to be the weakest out of all the films the pair did together. I really did not like the plot and towards the end it just gets so out of hand and nuts it becomes ridiculous… and not in a good way. In some scenes it even feels like Loy and Powell were just going along and not even really caring.  Watch the film for the fact that it is a William Powell and Myrna Loy film, if you really like them and want to see all their films other than that it is not worth it.

I think the promo pictures for Double Wedding are more amusing than the film itself

Myrna Loy is probably thinking Yes, I know the movie is not that good but please do not choke me it is not my fault

The Razor's Edge (1946)

“The whole world is restless and confused”

            The Razor’s Edge is one of many adaptations of stories by the author W. Somerset Maugham. The story combines philosophy and enlightenment with greed, jealousy, and downfall. These elements sound like they would not mix perfectly at all but each character with these elements come together and connect.

            Somerset Maugham is a character in the film (he is played by Herbert Marshall). He often comes in and narrates. In the beginning he tells the audience that this is a story about a man named Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power) who will leave no trace when he dies. This line ties in at points during the film when Larry does do very good things, we almost feel ashamed for him being such a good man who will never be well known.

            The film starts off at a party in the 1920s after World War I. Larry was a pilot during the War. He has come home to Chicago very disillusioned with life after seeing his friends die and seeks something more. He is engaged to a girl named Isabel Bradley (Gene Tierney). She is a society girl who only wants the best out of life. She and her mother are practically brainwashed by her social climbing uncle Elliot Templeton (Clifton Webb). Larry decides to go to Paris where many exciting things are happening. He figures he may gain some new knowledge or experience new things that will open his mind and his eyes. When Isabel and her family come to stay in her uncle’s Paris apartment Larry shows her Paris and the place where he has been living. She cannot understand how Larry could live the way the he does with barely any money and in such a small place. He asks her to come away with him and live a simple life. Isabel refuses and breaks off her engagement to Larry.

            As the years go by Larry has traveled to India where he finally seeks his enlightenment. Isabel is married with two girls to a man named Gray. They have lost their money in the stock market crash and Gray has gone into a depression where he has his good days and bad. They are living in Paris in Elliot’s apartment where he pays for them to have a rich life. Isabel still loves Larry in a way. She wants him to come back into the high social class that she is used to. Money and wealth do not matter to Larry but Isabel cannot understand that.

            One night when Larry, Isabel, Gray, and Maugham are out they visit a seedy sort of club. There they meet an old friend from Chicago named Sophie (Anne Baxter). She is no longer the happy in love woman married to a man she adored with a baby. Now she is a mess addicted to drugs and alcohol. Larry for a while saves her and they plan to marry. Isabel becomes jealous and tempts Sophie back to her old ways by flaunting what Sophie cannot have and has lost.

            Since Larry finally has found what he has wanted in life and sees just how cruel someone he had once felt so close to he returns to Chicago most likely to see none of his old friends again.

            I’m not sure how I feel about The Razor’s Edge. I did not hate it but I did not love it. I felt Anne Baxter was the only good actor in the whole film. Gene Tierney was beautiful without a doubt (and wonderfully dressed by her designer husband Oleg Cassini) but her acting to me was not the greatest it felt so fake and so forced. In one scene it was as if she was not trying to act like she was saying her lines the way someone would memorize a poem. Tyrone Power I just have trouble liking I have not watched one film with him so far where he has clicked with me and I cannot even say I kind of like him. He is not terrible here he was not a bad actor but I just cannot for the life of me get into him. Clifton Webb was pretty much a more flamboyant version of Waldo Lydecker from Laura. Baxter was really the only actor I thought gave a really great performance (she rightly won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this role). You can see the emotions on her face you can believe her character has loved and greatly lost and is now just a complete emotional mess. What Baxter did in just the few scenes she was in blew Tierney and pretty much everyone else right out of the water.

            I did really like the story and I liked the characters even Isabel who was so mean. Watching the film made me really want to read the book. For the film itself I do not wish other actors were the stars or can think of any other actors who could have done better. Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, and Clifton Webb were perfect but as far as the acting Power and Tierney could have done a lot better. The acting does not deter from the story at all.

            The Razor’s Edge is definitely worth seeing it is a very good example of classic Hollywood at its best. Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power were beautiful together (Power was often considered more beautiful than his female costars so it was often difficult for 20^th Century to find him beautiful female leads. Gene Tierney was just as beautiful and they looked perfect together). The entire cast was very good together. At a time when Film Noir was becoming big and there were anti-heroes The Razor’s Edge adds something a bit different. It does reflect society at the time when men were coming home from war and they questioned life but Larry found enlightenment he found his something more in life that was not high society and money. He was not down on his luck for very long. The people that surrounded him were out on their luck and he wanted to help them because he saw they were not happy with their lives.

             I found myself wishing I could be in Paris during the 1920s. As an Art History major I have learned about how artsy Paris was during this time and how it was THE place to be even into the 1930s (how I wish I could have  been around when Man Ray and Lee Miller were together). I would have loved to have witnessed the city then and to mingle with all the great artists and literary figures, maybe I would have ran into W. Somerset Maugham.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story



“If Elvis and Buddy Holly are the Cain and Abel of rock and roll, Bruce Springsteen is Zachariah, Iggy Pop is Methuselah, and, of course, Neil Young is the wise prophet Ezekiel, then what does that make Dewey Cox?”

            Walk Hard is one those movies that is so silly and ridiculous that you will be quoting it forever. It is a spoof of all the biopics that had been released previously to this. It takes from Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, and just about any singer from the fifties to the seventies mixes them all up into one person who seems to have lived a hundred different lives.

            Dewey Cox’s life is defined by the accidental (and hilarious) death of his older and very talented brother Nate. His father hates him for what happened to Nate always reminding him that “the wrong kid died” every chance he gets. At fourteen Dewey runs away with his girlfriend and gets a job at a black nightclub where they “come… to dance erotically.” Dewey learns all the songs the band performs and comes to the rescue one night when the lead singer (played by Craig Robinson) gets sick and his hands are broken. A group of nice Jewish men are in the audience that night (“they run show business”) from the record company. They like what they see and sign Dewey to a contract.

            Dewey has a runaway hit with his song “Walk Hard” and becomes a major singer with hit after hit. With the hits comes the downfall and so much hilarity. He becomes addicted to just about every drug thanks to his drummer Sam who always warned “no Dewey you don’t want any part of this shit” and then would proceed to give Dewey the drug.

            There are so many crazy scenes that I laugh just thinking about but I don’t want to give the whole movie away, you will just have to see Walk Hard for yourself. I will give you one scene because it is just so genius. Dewey decides he wants to go to India. This scene is supposed to be during the 1960s when The Beatles were all into meditation and the Indian culture. While in India Dewey gets to meditate with “The Beatles”:

The reason why Walk Hard is so brilliant is because of the cast. John C. Reilly went all out as Dewey there is almost literally nothing he did not do for a laugh. He sings all the songs and does a wonderful job. When the movie came out I was just really starting to get into The Office so once I saw Jenna Fischer (yes I am a diehard JAM fan)  was playing a character I had to go see it. She plays Dewey’s love Darlene. If you can only think of Fischer as sweet adorable Pam Beasley get ready to have your whole image of her completely destroyed! Fischer is such a good actress she was so funny and so dirty as Darlene.

 Kristen Wiig plays Dewey’s first wife Edith. Wiig is just a panic in whatever she is in because she is not afraid of acting crazy or looking horrendous. Matt Besser (Upright Citizens Brigade, Reno 911!), Tim Meadows, and Chris Parnell round out Dewey’s band with each one being crazier than the other.  So many actors pop up along the way to play different singers or just crazy characters: Frankie Muniz plays Buddy Holly, Jack White from the White Stripes plays Elvis, Ed Helms from The Office is a manager backstage at a concert, Harold Ramis is one of the Jewish men who sign Dewey, Jane Lynch, David Krumholtz, Jack McBayer, Paul Rudd, Jack Black, and Justin Long are just some of the many faces that come up throughout the movie.

            Walk Hard is so much fun to watch. I can remember seeing the movie in theaters with my brother. We were the only ones in the theater and we were just laughing nonstop. It is one of those movies that I can never get sick of watching and laugh even though I know every line and every scene. If you want to watch Walk Hard find the two disc edition and play the Unbearably Long Self Indulgent Director’s Cut it has even more wacked out scenes and lines.

Xanadu



“Have you ever heard the expression "kissed by a muse"? Well, that's what I am. I'm a muse.”

            Before you even have time to make a reaction and say to yourself how awful this movie is let me just defend myself and say yes, I know this movie is God awful but it is hysterically bad. Xanadu is just so bad that it is so much fun to watch. I did not choose to watch this movie initially. Many years ago when VHS was still around my mother –excuse me Santa- gave it to me for Christmas. I remember opening the VHS and looking at her like “what the hell is this” and all she said was “trust me you’ll like it.” Looking back on that Christmas morning I think my mom just bought it because she liked it and remembered seeing Xanadu in the theaters with her friends back in 1980.

            So the plot of Xanadu is… well there seems to really not be a plot. Alright well if I had to say there was a plot to Xanadu it’s about this guy Sonny Malone (Michael Beck) who paints enlarged record covers to put on the side of record stores. He is a starving artist who wants more out of life. As he says “dreams don’t come true anyway” a group of muses from a mural on a wall come to life, dance around a bit, and fly off outlined by colored light to inspire people. Kira (Olivia Newton-John) gets left behind to take care of Sonny. She “bumps” into him as she is roller skating and he cannot get her off of his mind. She comes up on an album cover he is supposed to paint. As Sonny goes looking for Kira he comes into contact with an old clarinet player named Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly). This meeting, made possible by Kira, sets Sonny and Danny on a path to a new friendship and partnership.

            Along the way to Sonny and Danny’s dream of wanting something more and setting up a new nightclub Kira and Sonny fall in love. Her father Zeus is not having any of it and will not allow her to go to the club opening until after she sings “Suspend Me in Time.” At the opening of Xanadu Kira and the other muses put on a nice show with plenty of roller skating.

            Xanadu is ‘80s craptastic cheese at its best. I will admit and not shamefully that I love the musical numbers. The soundtrack is awesome I say the movie was made as an excuse to put great music to. ELO wrote the theme and many of the songs except for three. “All Over the World” and “I’m Alive” are really good numbers.  There is one big number that is pretty interesting: it starts off with Danny and Sonny looking over the building where the club will be and each one thinks of it differently- Sonny sees a big rock n’ roll band and stage, Danny sees it as a big band stage with big band music. Each of these comes together for the number “Dancin” which is a good mash up of rock and big band styles of music. Olivia Newton- John sings the big band part and a band called The Tubes sings the rock part. One number “Don’t Walk Away” gets turned into a cartoon scene which really makes the laughter come because it cannot be taken seriously in the slightest (apparently the cartoon was made to save time and not film another scene with the actors).

            The acting is really awful by everyone. Olivia Newton- John is a singer first and foremost she may have been fabulous in Grease but in Xanadu and her next film Two of Kind (which my friend said after I made her watch it she felt like she had been violated) are horrendous. She was not a good actress. Poor Gene Kelly this was his last movie he made. He was still awesome he’s Gene Kelly one of the best dancers/actors ever but his acting was not the greatest it is sad to watch him here knowing Xanadu was his last movie especially after he made movies like Singin in the Rain, An American in Paris, and Summer Stock. Even in his old age he was still up and dancing and even on roller skates.

            Xanadu is a roller skating ‘80s nightmare. The acting is terrible and the plot seems to be non-existent or if it is there you cannot concentrate on it because all you are thinking about is how corny the whole thing is. But if you can look past all the corniness and cheese and have a good sense of humor Xanadu is pretty fun to watch. Xanadu is my ultimate guilty pleasure and it is one that I enjoy every time.

 

I Love You Again (1940)



“Ever since you got off that boat you've been chasing me like an amorous goat. You've tried your darnedest to make me fall in love with you and now you have.”

            I Love You Again starts off with William Powell as a penny pinching business man from a small Pennsylvania town named Larry Wilson. Larry is on a boat on his way back home from a business trip. He is sitting with some men who drink but he does not. One of the men is drunk and goes outside. Larry walking back to his room sees the man on the deck fall overboard. He tries to save the man by throwing the life saving tube down to him but Larry gets pulled with the tube into the water.

            When Larry wakes up he’s suffering from amnesia and reverts back to a former persona as an ex-con named George Carey who at first thinks it is 1931. The man he saved, “Doc” Ryan, goes along with Larry’s new persona. George and Doc see that Larry has a business and a nice chunk of money in the bank. They decide to go back to the small town and clean Larry out and run. Their plan backfires when Larry’s wife Kay (Myrna Loy) turns up at the harbor.

            At a hotel George finds out that Kay wants a divorce. He is totally smitten with Kay he does not want to let her go. Unfortunately he finds out that Larry was very stingy and never paid any attention to Kay at all he was always busy with things in the community. She also informs him that she is already engaged to a man named Herbert. George, Kay, and Herbert go out to dinner that night. Since George does not want to give Kay the divorce he tells her to wait a few weeks. She sees this as Larry wanting to wait until an election is over. She agrees just to cooperate and get the whole deal over with. Before Kay gets into a cab to leave George asks for one more kiss and the kiss is so fantastic that both are left swept off their feet.

            Once Kay and George get off the train back home all the chaos and scheming along with much hilarity begins.  

            Kay does not trust the new Larry. He is nice and charming and spending money like he never has before. She feels Larry is just being nice because he wants to be favorable to the public. All she wants for a while is just to move on and marry Herbert. George buys his wife nice nightgowns and clothes without even looking at the price. After a very nice walk Kay warns Larry to be on the lookout for her chasing him now.

            We all know that William Powell and Myrna Loy end up together in the end so no spoilers there. The ending is adorable.

            I think I Love You Again after The Thin Man films is one of Powell and Loy’s best films. They were both so good and so smooth and sophisticated. Powell’s ability at physical comedy is amazing. He does not go over the top with it he just does it straight. Acting as Larry he has to take a Boy Scout group out into the woods. First one of the kids finds Larry’s uniform in a closet in Larry’s office and the look on Powell’s face says it all. One of the boys is looking to get his next highest badge and the way that has to be done is by having Larry run through the woods with deer track marks put on the bottom of his shoe and the boy has to follow the trail until he can find Larry. Powell all ruffed up and nasty and falling all over the place is a panic. Loy is at her most sarcastic and dead pan. Some of the lines she was given I was laughing so hard at because of the way she delivered them like this one: “I often wished I could turn your head - on a spit, over a slow fire.” Her best scene was when George had asked her to make him some eggs because he was hungry. Later on he says he was not hungry he just wanted to talk to her so she got mad calmly took the plate with the eggs and dumped them on George’s head.

            Perhaps the reason why this film was so good is because W.S. Van Dyke directed it. He is responsible for originally pairing Powell and Loy in The Thin Man. Like The Thin Man Van Dyke excellently captures Powell and Loy’s chemistry and their wit together.

            I Love You Again is really funny and very well acted by Myrna Loy and William Powell. The plot is not bad it works out pretty well because it is not the same plot as most screwball comedies. You can never go wrong with a Powell and Loy film and this proves even more why they were such a fantastic screen pairing.