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The Lovers of "Honeymoon in Bali" and "Virginia"... IN LOVE AGAIN!
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.
One Night In Lisbon
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13 Jun 1941
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A screwball that never picks up steam. Well, Fred MacMurray was good. He was one of the screwball kings during this fad so that's only natural. Sadly there was barely any chemistry between him and Madeleine Carroll, with poor competition from a very stiff and silly John Loder. And regardless of having such excellent support of May Whitty, Billie Burke, Reginald Denny & Edmund Gwenn, MacMurray was the only one with enough motivation to give this a shot.
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Fred Macmurray was charming and had good chemistry with Madeleine Carroll. Reggie Denny shows up as a German Spy and does not have enough screentime for my liking!
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6.75/10
Madeleine Carroll is super in this screw-ball romantic comedy mostly set in 1941 London. (This isn't a drama or a thriller (as some websites characterize it).Fred MacMurray is wacky, but engaging and seeks to engage Carroll (who is seeing a very British Royal Navy commander at the time (John Loder as Cmdr. Peter Walmsley). Billie Burke plays Carroll's friend; May Whitty is Carroll's maid/cook and Edmund Gwenn plays a war official (and Carroll is his driver). Reginald Denny is also involved later on in the doing of this film. But the doings are not super important --- as this is a comedy of a screw-ball variety.
In short, Carroll gets completely stunned by brash American Fred MacMurray. As…
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The premise of this film is quite ambitious. Mixing elements of war/thrillers with the screwball motifs is complex, but it can be highly successful, namely in films such as To Be or Not to Be and Sullivan's Travels. Because of the scale of the conflict, you can catch the highly charismatic characters at vulnerable moments that can perfectly balance the funnier ones, taking advantage of performers while still respecting the seriousness of the setting. Of course, ambitious stories like these require talents at the heights of Lubitsch, Sturges, and Wilder to work. Unfortunately for the One Night in Lisbon crew, they were stuck with Edward H. Griffith.
My personal beef with Griffith comes from the fact that he is, essentially,…
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It’s the middle of an air raid and you find yourself alone in the shelter with a pretty girl, what do you do? Naturally, you pull out a duck call, because it’s seDUCtive…
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on a scale of one to straight up propaganda this is a "stop referring to the characters as 'england' and 'america' you doofuses. it's obvious, okay? it's already very obvious"
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One Night in Lisbon (Edward H. Griffith, 1941) 4/10
"Into every young Englishwoman's life must fall an American". This is the corny line the screenplay uses to signal Britain's need for American aid during the early years of WWII when the United States decided to sit out the War until they got bombed at Pearl Harbor. The Texan here - an annoyingly brash (aren't they all?) bomber pilot (Fred MacMurray) and a genteel Scottish lady (Madeleine Carroll) meet cute in a bunker during an air raid. He immediately comes onto her while she resists and is horrified. She is engaged to a Naval Commander (John Loder) and is encouraged by her friend (Billie Burke) to go after the Texan. Screwball…