Mr & Mrs Smith [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actor : Carole Lombard
  • Actor : Robert Montgomery
  • Actor : Gene Raymond
  • Actor : Jack Carson
  • Actor : Philip Merivale
  • Aspect Ratio : 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Binding : DVD
  • Creator : Carole Lombard
  • Creator : Robert Montgomery
  • Creator : Harry Stradling Sr.
  • Creator : William Hamilton
  • Creator : Harry E. Edington
  • Creator : Norman Krasna
  • Director : Alfred Hitchcock
  • EAN : 9780780648241
  • Format : Closed-captioned
  • Format : Colour
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : Subtitled
  • Format : NTSC
  • ISBN : 0780648242
  • Label : Turner Home Ent
  • Languages : Subtitled: English, Subtitled: French, Subtitled: Spanish, Original Language: English
  • Manufacturer : Turner Home Ent
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.58 inches (Height) x 7.10 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 5.42 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : Turner Home Ent
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 2004-09-07
  • Running Time : 95
  • SKU : 05393968072U
  • Studio : Turner Home Ent
  • UPC : 053939680720

Before Hollywood had entirely typecast Alfred Hitchcock as the master of suspense, he was allowed to fashion this elegant romantic trifle starring Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard. It probably won't replace Rear Window or Psycho in your affections, but the film is more than a curious footnote to the director's career. The two leads play David and Ann Smith, a devoted but endlessly squabbling couple who discover their three-year marriage isn't legal. When he unexpectedly hesitates to arrange a second wedding, she storms out in a huff and soon begins dating his solid, dependable business partner Jeff (Gene Raymond). The rest follows the formula laid down by such previous screwball comedies as The Awful Truth (1937) and Bringing Up Baby (1938): David employs fair means or foul to win back Ann's heart, causes all sorts of complicated mischief, then... well, three guesses what happens in the end.The intriguing thing about the movie is how Hitchcock takes Norman Krasna's paper-thin script and adds sly undercurrents of menace. You may note, for instance, that the ostensibly happy Smiths treat each other with subtle sadism right from the start, and that David's tactical pursuit of his ex-wife (spying on her and deliberately offending Jeff's parents) involves them both in humiliations that are really quite sinister and ugly. Violence seems about to erupt in the recurring scenes where Ann shaves her husband (suggestively holding a razor up to his throat)--and make what you will of our hero's symbolic nosebleeds. There's a touch of Vertigo in one scary moment when a jammed amusement park ride leaves two characters dangling helplessly high above the ground--and a touch of shall we say relief for Hitchcock's well-known love of toilet humour in another oddball sequence. Montgomery and Lombard keep the mood acceptably frivolous, while indicating the flawed nature of the marital relationship. From the evidence of this one-off, Hitchcock might have been among the best comedy directors in the business, had he so wished. --Peter Matthews

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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