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“Say it’s a bit nippy tonight, you’ll make a right proper little water bottle!”
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I’ve been looking forward to this film pretty much as long as film has been an important part of my life. Film love started with Hepburn and Grant, and here of course is their first collaboration. It didn’t disappoint; the first hour of it is hilarious and energetic, full of delightful gender confusion. Kate is actually fairly convincing as a boy, a prep school dandy of a boy, which comes as a shock in the moments when one can look through her iconic voice and face; Cary is really great in what comes across as a fairly brilliant study of “Archie doing Cary doing what an American would think is Cockney.” It’s a bit shocking for the Code, scandalous at the time for Kate’s “girl”-on-girl smooch.
It loses some steam, humor and follow-through on gender trouble in the second half, in which it becomes clear this floppy-headed Errol Flynn wannabe is the actual romantic interest. I don’t care if it’s 1935 and he’s not quite Cary Grant yet; I can’t imagine a romance giving preference to another man than Cary Grant. Does not compute. Anyway, this was well worth the wait, very pleasing, and even quite good for long stretches.
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