☆ ☆ ☆
Unfaithfully
Yours (1948) – P. Sturges
Rex Harrison wants desperately to be in
a manic Preston Sturges movie (such as The Palm Beach Story or The Miracle of
Morgan Creek) and he heroically tries to make it so. Just look at him thrashing about his
apartment destroying stuff on his own.
It’s a bit sad really because this film shows Sturges running out of
steam. The concept is good: a famous symphony conductor suspects his wife of
cheating (after receiving an unwanted detective’s report from Rudy Vallee) and
proceeds to imagine what he will do.
That is, there are three fantasy sequences that arise while he is
conducting, apparently magnificently (the camera tracks into his eye each
time). Unfortunately, his wife, played by Linda Darnell, isn’t up to the manic
comic standards and the script contains too few funny gags and just so much
useless thrashing about. And this was
Sturges’ last hurrah (more or less) – too bad because he burned so brightly
during the war years.
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