We have an Ayn-Randish character in Claudette Colbert; the actress imbuing her role with much wit and charm.
This John Wayne starrer is a lot better than all the mediocre factory stuff that Hollywood seems to churn out nowadays!
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Nowadays I can't sit in a movie theater for 30 minutes. When was the last time I've seen a good movie?...
I can't remember.
Hooray for Hollywood-TCM!
Just saw this on TCM.
Seemed like Claudette played the Roosevelt socialist New World do-gooder, and Duke (with that speech he gives) is the rugged individualist.
I enjoyed this film. No, not great, but good and it was fun to see Claudette Colbert and John Wayne work together. Wayne was quite good in this comedy and I thought he was really funny. I just wish he would've had a scene with Cary Grant.
"I know you're in there, Fagerstrom!"-Conan O'Brien
My mind was reeling that Grant and Wayne were even in the same movie, but a scene together would have been very interesting to see.
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The IMDB cast list for this movie has Cary Grant (uncredited). I'm looking forward to watching this movie!
shareYeah, I took Colbert's character to be the philosophical opposite of Ayn Rand... and Wayne her foil... the opposites of the characters in Colbert's character's book.
I'm not clear that the movie had much of an opinion on the argument... except maybe that both views are extremes and things are best served by compromise and coming to the middle.
I so agree - this was not one of the great Colbert or Wayne movies but it was enjoyable and so much better than the garbage Hollywood thinks is "funny" these days.
This positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms!Terry-Thomas about US 1963.Hasnt changed much!