"Mr. & Mrs. Smith"

Still playing catch-up of sorts, although I won't even try to go over films I watched during the year and a half or so I didn't write in this blog. THAT would be daunting. And, unless something was super-duper memorable, I've probably forgotten plenty about the movies viewed.

But, I did finish "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" yesterday, a Carole Lombard-Robert Montgomery comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1941. I have to give it one big "meh." There are a couple of scenes that stand out, one being the couple stuck on an amusement park ride high above a crowd...bringing some of the ol' Hitch suspense...and another being a hilarious scene in a nightclub where Montgomery pretends to be chatting up a woman other than the one he was supposed to be seen with.

I should summarize the plot a bit. The Smiths discover, through an odd technicality, that they're not married at all, right after Mr. Smith confesses to the Mrs. that he might not have married her at all had he the chance to do it over again. When he doesn't rush to marry her again after the technicality is discovered, she assumes the worst, and the war begins. The war lasts until about the final ten seconds of the movie.

While there is a bit of humor here and there, the movie certainly doesn't fit into the Lombard "screwball" category. It's okay, but I consider it the very definition of a "trifle." (By the way, the 2005 film with Pitt and Jolie is not a remake of this film....previously, I thought it was.)