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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790789972
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790789973
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 01, 2005
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 32745
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 09, 1936
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Bill Chandler (William Powell) is one of America's great anglers a sports fisherman without peer. That's not the only fish story Chandler tells. Four of Hollywood's greatest stars - Powell Jean Harlow Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy - reel in this whopper of a screwball romantic comedy classic nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. It all starts when society diva Loy slaps newsman Tracy with a libel suit. Tracy enlists fiancee Harlow and down-on-his-luck Powell in a counter-maneuver involving a rigged marriage a phony seduction a fabulously funny fishing scene fisticuffs broken promises and hearts and eventually true love for all. This Lady is one fine catch.Running Time: 98 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 012569591929
Amazon.com essential video:
Newspaper comedy doesn't seem like an MGM genre--ink-stained wretches don't go with Adrian gowns and white deco furniture--but Jack Conway, the designated bull in the Metro china shop (Boom Town, Too Hot to Handle) does what he can to bring some dash and flair to a wildly complicated script. Spencer Tracy is the tough city editor who goes to some spectacular extremes when socialite Myrna Loy files a $5 million libel suit against his paper for calling her a notorious home-wrecker; he hires celebrated ladies' man William Powell to seduce Loy and asks his long-suffering fiancée, Jean Harlow, to marry Powell temporarily so she can play the wronged wife when Loy and Powell are discovered together. The couples crisscross, with frenetic and not entirely unpredictable results, but much of the pleasure here lies in seeing these iconic stars being so thoroughly themselves. The dialogue strains for champagne wit, but the movie's most memorable moment is pure, rotgut slapstick--Powell's bout with an unruly fly-fishing rod. --Dave Kehr
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Hilarious!
This is a great slapstick comedy! Spencer Tracy (before he teamed up with Katharine Hepburn)plays Warren Haggerty, a newspaperman who's company gets slapped with a $5 million dollar libel suit for printing a false story about a young socialite (Myrna Loy). He has to try and have her drop the lawsuit - and what better way to do that than have her get caught with a married (supposedly) man. He convinces an old co-worker of his (William Powell) to marry his fiancee (Jean Harlow). Just until he can get ... Read More
Rating:  - 5 star comedy destroyed by 1 star print - disappointing
The availability of this classic marital farce with such star power is excellent but MGM/Warners have offered a really poor print covered in scratches and dirt. What a disappointment!
Still, we can enjoy Myrna Loy's sarcasm, Jean Harlow's hysteria, Spencer Tracy's animation and, above all, William Powell's trout fishing episode. All the leads are at their very best and play superbly off each other. Walter Connelly, that peerless character actor, is on hand too as Loy's father and is ... Read More
Rating:  - Outrageously Funny!
This is another great screwball comedy (1936) set during the great depression, casting some of the best performers of that time. Having nominated by the Academy in the best picture category, the movie is riveting and you will be glued from beginning to end due to the offbeat nature of the comedy. The story is a pure farce comedy, when the daughter of an aristocratic family Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) is falsely accused by the New York Evening Star newspaper of breaking up a marriage; she sues the newspaper ... Read More
Rating: - Classic Powell/Loy Comedy
William Powell and Myrna Loy made many movies together during the 1930's and 1940's- both Thin Man movies and comedies. They probably never had better support than this movie with Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow in key roles. Audiences never tired of seeing Powell and Loy's characters fall in love but this movie presents a complicated plot around the love story. Very well done with many laughs and of course, great chemistry. 70 plus years later, still a classic!
Rating: - better ending next time
I'm a lover of William Powell and Myrna Loy movies. As usual, they are great onscreen together but the ending wasn't a very satisfying one.
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