There are a lot of laughs to be found in this screwball comedy that once again involves Rosalind Russell playing a professional woman (high ranking attorney) up for a prestigious judgeship and finding obstacles at every angle by ex-husband Robert Cummings, a fellow lawyer she remarries out of the blue and ends up wanting a divorce on the very night of the second ceremony. He's involved in a confidential case that he can't tell her about, ironically handed to him by her retired judge grandfather (Harry Davenport).
Suspicions over his gangster's moll client (Marie McDonald) sets her on edge, causing her to use sophisticated playboy Gig Young to make him simmer. Lots of pratfalls follow, stranding Russell and Cummings on Clem Bevan's lighthouse island, finds the two on a ski trip, and has Russell smudging her make-up in funny ways and getting soaked by falling through loose dock boards while escaping from an illegal gambling joint.
This is very formula for a typical Rosalind Russell screwball comedy, the same basic set-up as the type of comedy she'd been doing since "His Girl Friday". The following year's "A Woman of Distinction", costarring Ray Milland, was nearly the same, but probably because I saw that several times years before I saw this, I consider that one a better film. It's whimsical but predictable, but Russell's formula is one worth downing over and over.
Suspicions over his gangster's moll client (Marie McDonald) sets her on edge, causing her to use sophisticated playboy Gig Young to make him simmer. Lots of pratfalls follow, stranding Russell and Cummings on Clem Bevan's lighthouse island, finds the two on a ski trip, and has Russell smudging her make-up in funny ways and getting soaked by falling through loose dock boards while escaping from an illegal gambling joint.
This is very formula for a typical Rosalind Russell screwball comedy, the same basic set-up as the type of comedy she'd been doing since "His Girl Friday". The following year's "A Woman of Distinction", costarring Ray Milland, was nearly the same, but probably because I saw that several times years before I saw this, I consider that one a better film. It's whimsical but predictable, but Russell's formula is one worth downing over and over.