A stylish drawing-room comedy, with Robert Young once again ideally cast as a harassed husband. He receives solid support all the way down the line from Janis Carter's brassy blonde to the uncredited guest appearance of Mary Treen as a puzzled patient.
The film's best sequence is an hilarious 20 minutes dealing with a quest for pickled lychee nuts (and another uncredited guest appearance, this time by Victor Sen Yung as a shop-owner).
Smooth direction combined with fine photography, classy sets and attractive costumes, give the film a highly polished veneer.
And for your utmost enjoyment, please disregard three facts: (1) bad notices from sourpuss contemporary critics; (2) Henry Levin's reputation as a director of speed rather than style; (3) Humphrey Bogart's invisible hand in the production - his company produced and financed the movie, but probably he had as little to do with it as John Ford with Mighty Joe Young.
The film's best sequence is an hilarious 20 minutes dealing with a quest for pickled lychee nuts (and another uncredited guest appearance, this time by Victor Sen Yung as a shop-owner).
Smooth direction combined with fine photography, classy sets and attractive costumes, give the film a highly polished veneer.
And for your utmost enjoyment, please disregard three facts: (1) bad notices from sourpuss contemporary critics; (2) Henry Levin's reputation as a director of speed rather than style; (3) Humphrey Bogart's invisible hand in the production - his company produced and financed the movie, but probably he had as little to do with it as John Ford with Mighty Joe Young.