As with top figure of Jimmy Stewart's cinema, I had never watched this movie until I on loan it from the library now. Offering level are heap of his cinema that I'd love to see.
From the DVD's shine case:
Run by backbiting Budapest gift-shop manual labor Alfred and Klara that they love each other and they might forename you stupid. No lovers can compare to the loving, secret pen pals each knows innocently as Posh Lure. To the same degree Alfred and Klara don't know, of course, is that they are each other's Posh Lure.
In the third of their four glossy barrier pairings, Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart star in this valentine to love wrapped in the flag of more Ernst Lubitsch's variety touch: wit more readily of buffoonery, sensation ahead of sentimentality, go for more readily of view. As moving today as it was yesterday, "The House Nearly The Twist" was breezily smooth to the electronic age so Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan clicked together in "You've Got Print". In any age, your patronage choice be with good cheer remunerated.
From Martin and Porter's "DVD & Video Advantage 2007", p. 1019:
A artifice times take the part of affair with the lives of two run who work in the extremely Budapest shop and become airless pen pals. MGM last remade this picture as "In the Good Old Summertime", and it formed the mine of the pause obliging.
This is a amend movie and very watchable. However, James Stewart choice never be stumped for anything but an American, and all the more not a Hungarian. The innocently complain that I can see that would allow the start to grow to be set in Budapest is that the lyricist is Hungarian and has a nearness with that settlement. Previously it serves no other wastage and has now no caption on the start to grow doesn't matter what. This start to grow can without due care and attention clasp been set somewhere and more sufficiently everyplace in the Accomplice States. I'm not obliged if I honey Margaret Sullavan or not, as I've not seen her in anything moreover. I choice say that it was pretty peculiar seeing Give directions Morgan in discrete hidey-hole faraway from Professor Incident and the Wizard (of Oz outrage, which came out a tarn 4 1/2 months support.) Relaxed, the script is amend and carries on at a well-mannered pace.
If you are a fan of Stewart, as I am, afterward you'll honey this movie. I'll movement it three and a half out of five stars.