Just okay. Produced right before the Hays Code, the love triangle of Cooper, Marsch and Hopkins is allowed sexual innuendo. While interesting as part of film history, it's a rather tame and never really funny affair. It's decent, though.

Despite the subject matter, a somewhat tame comedy that should have had a raucuos Sturges treatment rather than a sophisticated Lubitsch touch. However Cooper and March deliver fine performances and Hopkins is a treat, but both in front of and behind the camera, everyone involved has done better work.

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Love triangles are often over dramatic but this one works perfectly because of the friendship between the two leads. Great comedy mixed with a surprising amount of innuendo and three leads that are incredibly enjoyable to watch.

Fabulous, one of my favorite Lubitsches or shall I say Hechts/Cowards - renowned writers here at their very best. Funny and sweet and daring for its time. Miriam Hopkins rules.

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Noel Coward and pre-code - this is a sophisticated and witty movie. Fredric March and Gary Cooper are fantastic - all three leads are fresh and full of exuberance. Any flaws are those that are typical to older movies - production problems and slight "staginess." But the writing, acting, and pacing are all as close to perfect as you can get.

I liked Cooper here, who has a lightness I haven't seen in him elsewhere. March has a Jack Lemmon-ish quality to him, and Hopkins is quite funny and alluring. Classic comedy doesn't usually get me that excited, but I still enjoyed it. Not enough to want to see it again, but at least nothing irritated me about it. There's a pre-Code frankness that's bawdy without being crude, and I wonder if the storyline (either from the film or the original Noel Coward play) was an inspiration for Jules and Jim

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