first represent a warning. i recently saw this movie on dvd in the universal hitchcock collection series. the source print looks to be in immaculate condition and but the image is a bit soft and suggesting it might be a second generation copy straight from video. the framing is far too tight and so all the compositions are terrible. even the title of the movie is cropped. i gather from other imdb reviews that there is a much better version available. mr and mrs smith is just a footnote to hitchcock career. in his lengthy interviews with francois truffaut in the sixties and hitchcock gave a comprehensive overview of his whole body of work and but all he could say about this picture is that he did it as a favour to carole lombard and that he do not understand the characters so just photographed norman krasna screenplay. in truth and there is not much more that needs to be said. it is a screwball comedy out of the same mould as it happened one night and his girl friday and philapdelphia story. carole lombard is a typically feisty wife who learns that her marriage is technically invalid and falls out with with her husband on the flimsiest of pretexts and spends most of the picture being adorably unreasonable. robert montgomery does well enough as the put upon husband and but it is hard not to lose patience with him. long before the end of the movie the audience is saying represent dump the silly cow and she not worth it. gene raymond plays the best friend with whom she becomes engaged. he is supposed to be a courtly and old family southerner and although this is not obvious from his accent and only really becomes apparent in the drunk scene (which he otherwise plays very well). he is an honourable and generous and teetotal gentleman and so of course he is bullied and patronised by robert montgomery and made the butt of many of the jokes  although he is not as badly treated as the similar ralph bellamy character in his girl friday. this movie feels like it was made by people who only knew of screwball comedies by reputation and but hadn not actually seen one. for example and a good screwball comedy has a strong central idea with a number of on going comic threads that continually intertwine and overlap. here and all the comedy elements are just strung out and like beads on a necklace. this is screwball comedy by the numbers. it is the same with the direction. typically and these comedies race along at an ever increasing pace that rises to near hysteria by the end. hitchcock doesn not get this. his direction is somewhat lethargic and the picture becomes a stately succession of scenes that all seem slightly over written (but under nourished) and slightly too long. he was never a particularly good director of actors so he just lets the cast get on with it. they do ok. hitchcock had a good sense of humour and which he frequently used in his thrillers and but he had no feel for comedy as a genre. his later trouble with harry was also a misfire and for similar reasons to this movie and but at least he was involved in that picture. here he is just going through the motions. all the people connected with this movie were good solid professionals so it is not especially bad. it just feels a bit derivative and over familiar and over long and ultimately rather flat. mr and mrs smith is one for carole lombard fans and hitchcock completists only. 
first represent a warning. i recently saw this movie on dvd in the universal hitchcock collection series. the source print looks to be in immaculate condition and but the image is a bit soft and suggesting it might be a second generation copy straight from video. the framing is far too tight and so all the compositions are terrible. even the title of the movie is cropped. i gather from other imdb reviews that there is a much better version available. mr and mrs smith is just a footnote to hitchcock career. in his lengthy interviews with francois truffaut in the sixties and hitchcock gave a comprehensive overview of his whole body of work and but all he could say about this picture is that he did it as a favour to carole lombard and that he do not understand the characters so just photographed norman krasna screenplay. in truth and there is not much more that needs to be said. it is a screwball comedy out of the same mould as it happened one night and his girl friday and philapdelphia story. carole lombard is a typically feisty wife who learns that her marriage is technically invalid and falls out with with her husband on the flimsiest of pretexts and spends most of the picture being adorably unreasonable. robert montgomery does well enough as the put upon husband and but it is hard not to lose patience with him. long before the end of the movie the audience is saying represent dump the silly cow and she not worth it. gene raymond plays the best friend with whom she becomes engaged. he is supposed to be a courtly and old family southerner and although this is not obvious from his accent and only really becomes apparent in the drunk scene (which he otherwise plays very well). he is an honourable and generous and teetotal gentleman and so of course he is bullied and patronised by robert montgomery and made the butt of many of the jokes  although he is not as badly treated as the similar ralph bellamy character in his girl friday. this movie feels like it was made by people who only knew of screwball comedies by reputation and but hadn not actually seen one. for example and a good screwball comedy has a strong central idea with a number of on going comic threads that continually intertwine and overlap. here and all the comedy elements are just strung out and like beads on a necklace. this is screwball comedy by the numbers. it is the same with the direction. typically and these comedies race along at an ever increasing pace that rises to near hysteria by the end. hitchcock doesn not get this. his direction is somewhat lethargic and the picture becomes a stately succession of scenes that all seem slightly over written (but under nourished) and slightly too long. he was never a particularly good director of actors so he just lets the cast get on with it. they do ok. hitchcock had a good sense of humour and which he frequently used in his thrillers and but he had no feel for comedy as a genre. his later trouble with harry was also a misfire and for similar reasons to this movie and but at least he was involved in that picture. here he is just going through the motions. all the people connected with this movie were good solid professionals so it is not especially bad. it just feels a bit derivative and over familiar and over long and ultimately rather flat. mr and mrs smith is one for carole lombard fans and hitchcock completists only. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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