Badly written

As some other posters have mentioned, this is a very odd film with attempts to combine romance, comedy and Nazi Germany. (Perhaps Mel Brooks wasn't so far off with his film The Producers?). Cary Grant does very well with the comedy and Ginger Rogers looks nice, which seemed to be her major talent.

This film was written by Sheridan Gibney, who also wrote "I Was a Fugitive From a Chain Gang", which, I think, is a much better film than this. Mr. Gibney was done in by the anti-communist lunancy of the late 1940s and 1950s. He wasn't a communist, but a president of the Screen Writers Guild, which the anti-communists thought was a communist organisation. Thanks to the anti-communists, he had very little work during the 1950s and finally returned, not to films, but to television in the 1960s.

In a rather odd letter written to his mother in 1925 after he had graduated from university and taken a trip to Europe, he complained bitterly that the famous Parisian museum, Louvre, was virtually overflowing with art it did not need (!) while the French nation was in debt. He correctly expected war to come, but wrote "Secretly I think the French are going to creep out of the debt under cover of another war. If so, my sympathies will be with the Germans... If there is another war, the French will certainly be the aggressors."

Well, he could not have been more wrong in his prognosis of the nature of European war. So, not really so surprising he wrote such a ludicrous script for "One Upon a Honeymoon."