I saw this film maybe about a year ago. It was very mixed. Like the earlier comment said it at first seems like it going to be a screwball comedy, but is throughout a intense melodrama of the disintegration of a marriage. Its like Cukor wants to make a serious film, but throws some screwball in a few places to lighten it up. It doesn't really work..he is not Billy Wilder, a director who was so apt at dramedies.
I was just watching King Vidor's "The Crowd" on Youtube, and I kept saying to myself, "Ive seen this in another movie. But which one?". Then I realize it was this one. This is a offbeat remake of the "The Crowd". The ordinary Joe trying to get ahead in some dead end job. The suddenly wealth of an inheritance (in "The Crowd"it was a grand prize of $500), and the careless death of a child.
If you actually liked this film you should see "The Crowd", I thought this film was quirky, but gave it credit for being ahead of its time. But now that I know that its a REMAKE of a film 30 years earlier, I have to say my opinion of it is diminished.
I was just watching King Vidor's "The Crowd" on Youtube, and I kept saying to myself, "Ive seen this in another movie. But which one?". Then I realize it was this one. This is a offbeat remake of the "The Crowd". The ordinary Joe trying to get ahead in some dead end job. The suddenly wealth of an inheritance (in "The Crowd"it was a grand prize of $500), and the careless death of a child.
If you actually liked this film you should see "The Crowd", I thought this film was quirky, but gave it credit for being ahead of its time. But now that I know that its a REMAKE of a film 30 years earlier, I have to say my opinion of it is diminished.