Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) starring Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Married couple in New York (Lombard, Montgomery) find out that, through a technicality, they're not legally married. She knows that he knows, but he doesn't know that she knows. She wants to get married again right away, but he hesitates a bit too long -- and from that point on she takes a delight in torturing him with the idea that she doesn't want him at all anymore. It's supposed to be a madcap comedy, but the pacing is too deliberate for that. Still, it makes for an agreeable evening's entertainment -- although the ending is rather abrupt and anticlimactic. The subtitles are (barely) adequate. Grade: B
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