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 "The Bull of Broad Street... with a girl... in the sable-est sable coat they ever sabled! " Jul 19, 2009
In 1940 Preston Sturges would join the ranks of film gods like Charlie Chaplin, Howard Hawks and Frank Capra to become one of the first screenwriters to make the leap from just writing to also directing. And direct he did! Between 1941 and 1944 he wrote and directed three of my favorite movies of all time: THE LADY EVE, THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK and HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO. EASY LIVING was made three years before he made his big jump. He was just a screenwriter, but even so his influence can been seen all over it.
As usual with Preston Sturges movies the wackiness starts from the very beginning. This time around an extremely rich New York City banker gets pissed off when his wife spends $58,000 on a fur coat without telling him. He crashes into her room(s) like a bull and when he's unable to find the fur in question he just grabs one of the others and with her chasing him he runs to the roof of their high rise and slings it off. Down it goes where it lands on Jean Arthur's head and smashes the feather on her hat. She wants to know who [...]ed up her hat so she confronts the banker as he's leaving his building. He apologizes and tells her she can have the coat and then he innocently takes her to a hat store to get her a new hat. Naturally when people see them together they suspect the worst (that she's his mistress) and that's when Sturges goes off to the races! You got mass confusion, mistaken identities, dogs jumping all over the joint, people falling down in a giant bathtub, a piggy bank getting murdered, phone cords tangled up, a riot scene in an Automat that had me laughing so hard I had to rewatch it three times, a police chase and much more.
If you're not opposed to older movies and you like comedies then you should check this one out. I really enjoyed it. But still as funny as this film was it doesn't hold a candle to the three I mentioned earlier. The first time I saw THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK I laughed until I thought that I might actually choke to death. No [...].
 Good crazy, zany fun May 12, 2009
If there was ever a comedy that could start on one little thing and snowball into something bigger, well,this is the flick; Jean Arthur,who was in her heyday at the time of this flick(Mr Deeds Goes to Town, Mr Smith Goes to Washington,You Can't Take it With You)plays a working girl minding her business when a fur coat falls literally on her lap. Let me go back a bit. Edward Arnold and his wife were fussing about her buying stuff out of control. Though he was rich, it IS the Depression, and if you looked in that woman's closets, you would wonder why she acted the way she did because she had more than enough. Anyway, he took the coat she was hollering about and threw it down where it fell on Jean Arthur who was riding a double decker bus. Well, she tries to give the coat back to the owner, but Arnold persuades her to keep it and buys her a hat to go along with the coat since her other hat got damaged when the coat fell on her. She gets to work late, which she acknowledges, but the folks being a bit nosy for their own goods fire her and set about a serious chain reaction. Well, she goes home, finds a note from Louie Louie(Luis Alberni), asking her to meet him at his establishment.(By now, the man in the hat store thought Arthur and Arnold were in a relationship and put two and two together wrongly and alerted Louie) Alberni needing the publicity for his hotel because Arnold already told him he need to get current on his mortgages, have Arthur stay there for the same amount she spent at the previous place she was at(with one egg). suddenly, new clothes appear, stock tips are asked for and she is wondering why all of this is happening. Then she goes to the Automat and runs in Ray Milland(Arnold's son), who feeling sorry for her, tries to give her the hook up, but gets caught and loses his job, but not before everyone else gets a hook up too, courtesy of the two men fighting. That scene is the zaniest of all scenes. well one of two scenes; The other is when Edward Arnold keeps getting the ticker tapes and his phones tangled up. (I am sure they would have appreciated some cell phones if they were invented at the time). Because of an assumption, a young girl's reputation is at stake, a mans marriage and business is about to hit the toilet and things get to a serious head, but cleared up by the end of the flick. One interesting note of this film is that future director Preston Sturges wrote this screenplay(whose fingerprints are quite evident with the scenes); worth a couple of good laughs after a long day and for those classic movie lovers who appreciate a good flick.
Can't go wrong Mar 02, 2009
This is an hour and three quarters of comedy made possible by 'the cutie' herself Jean Arthur. This is one of her better efforts and worth every penny of yor entertainment dollar. Git it !!
Delightful movie Feb 19, 2009
This is a charming B&W movie. The story moves along quickly. We love classic movies. This one is among our favorites. We have watched it quite a lot! Jean arthur is great in this one.
Classic Screwball comedy ! Jan 29, 2009
A script by Preston Surges-a delightful Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold & a young Ray Milland -and you have a formula for a classic 30's screwball comedy ! The depression era setting and the ups & downs(crash) on Wall Street add modern relevancy to the story. Main atraction though is comedy of errors that begins when angry husband & big time banker, Arnold , tosses a fur coat off a roof and it lands on the innocent Jean Arthur. When people believe coat is a gift & mistake Arnold as Arthur's "sugar daddy"- hilarity ensues!
The cliche - they don't make them like this anymore is sadly true! Get this and enjoy!!!
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