Showing posts with label Preston Sturges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Preston Sturges. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

EASY LIVING (1937)

[Update 03/08/2021: Need to redo this review completely. Fix the screenshots also.]

A wealthy New York City banker becomes enraged when he finds out that his wife spend $58,000 on a fur coat without telling him. He throws the jacket off the roof of their high rise. Down, down, down it goes until it lands on Jean Arthur's head and smashes the feather on her hat. She confronts the banker and he apologizes.  He tells her she can have the coat and then he innocently takes her to a hat store to get her a new hat. Naturally, when people see them together they suspect that she's his mistress and that's when the story goes crazy! Mass confusion, mistaken identities, dogs jumping all over the joint, people falling down in a giant bathtub, a piggy bank getting murdered, phone cords tangled up, a riot scene in an Automat that had me laughing so hard I had to rewatch it three times, a police chase and much more.

If you're not opposed to older movies and you like comedies then you should check this one out. I really enjoyed it.