Cheerful hack from Chevalier with Lubitsch Paris of 1932. A city where only love misunderstandings can happen. And now in one of them falls loving married couple Andre and Colette Bertier (Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette McDonald, respectively). Collet introduces his specific husband to his former high school girlfriend Mitzi (Genev Tobin), and the latter, who is married, begins to seduce Andre in every possible way. The man, of course, loves his wife, and morality is not averse, but biology takes its course, and if the wife also throws an excuse, wait for Parisian misunderstandings.
Once again, we have before us the favorite tandem of the Great Depression Lubic-Chevalier. The first is a specialist in light frivolous romantic cinema, and the second is a smiling lipstick, which for millions of housewives of the 30s seemed the ideal of a man. The guys for two made movies almost like on the assembly line of Ford, while distinguishing them from each other was as difficult as cars of the same brand. "Love Parade," "Smiling Lieutenant," and now "One Hour With You." The guys were so out of control that even the female characters stopped changing. For example, Chevalier’s wife here was played by Janet MacDonald, who in “Love Parade” was listed as a “princess”. Yes, Lubic and Chevalier made the assembly line, but surprisingly different. All these one-sided, superficial and typical films still turned out to be damn invigorating.
Here you watch this in all understandings stupid "One hour with you", and the idiotic smile no, no, and slips. And I say this from the perspective of the film critic of the twenty-first century, but imagine what the audience felt in a depressed 1932? Pleasure and forgetting. And I am not delighted with the same manner of playing Chevalier, and Lubic at the dawn of his directorial career does not give revelations, but such a movie is in demand at all times. This is a film, albeit very straightforward, but positive.
If anyone is interested in the person of the co-director of Lubitsch George Cukor, I explain. Cukor in his career, and we will return to it many times, will achieve an order of magnitude more star Ernst Lubitsch. Another thing is that Lubic in 1932 was already an established director's unit, which was exactly in the top 10 best directors of Hollywood. And Cukor was nobody. But since Lubitsch was involved during the filming of One Hour with You on a parallel project, Paramount for insurance attributed to the project also a young director Cukor. The latter was immediately trolled by Maurice Chevalier (compared to Cukor, he was a size), and after returning to the project, Lubic also began. In general, George was hounded, and he and a couple of Lubitsch-Chevalier broke up lousy.
And finally, I will cite a few catchy phrases from the film, so to speak, to catch the general atmosphere of this stupid production.
- In Switzerland, we have one rather unusual law, if a husband shoots his wife, he is put in prison.
- You're very confident. - No, madam, I'm married.
- You look smarter and better than you did then.
- It's too great to show only my husband (about underwear).
- You have a right to be wrong, you are a woman. And women are born to be wrong.
The verdict. Another curve from Lubitsch-Chevalier, which is so bad that even likes
7 out of 10