Micitype Pretty Good

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

mark.waltz Women make horrible judges, powerful newspaper owner Edward Arnold announces in court, upset by judge Rosalind Russell's fining him for contempt and giving wife Mary Beth Hughes a huge settlement. That's all it takes for Arnold to vow revenge, rehiring recently fired employee Walter Pidgeon in his scheme against her. He presents himself to her when she goes on vacation, chewing her ear off and generally making a nuisance of himself as he poses as a sculptor and purposely romances her in an awkward manner to get her into an awkward position so Arnold can blackmail her. Obviously, nature isn't going to take that course of action, and there's a lot of silliness in taking this ridiculous plot in the direction it goes.In spite of the implausabilities, this is an entertaining, if plot heavy, screwball comedy, with Jean Rogers as a blackmailing beautician, Vera Vague as Russell's malapropism spouting sister, Bobby Larson as Russell's prankster playing nephew (using the heads of sleeping bald men as an etch-a-sketch) and Guy Kibbee as an influencial judge. This is certainly a gorgeous film to look at (the type that probably produced gorgeous stills and lobby cards) and romantic in spite of it's con plotline. My judgement? Simply enjoy and throw the book at those thoughts that criticize the film as a whole.

vincentlynch-moonoi While this is not one of the great movie comedies, I found it rather enjoyable. I'm not sure the casting was perfect. At first, I didn't find Walter Pidgeon to be logical for the male lead...I was thinking more along the lines of Cary Grant. But as I got further into the film, it occurred to me that Cary Grant (my favorite actor) would probably have played it too hard to the comedy side, while Pidgeon could play it with humor, but also on the sentimental side. In reality, although this is not the typical Walter Pidgeon role, he actually is quite good in it. Esteemed character actor Guy Kibbee was not right in the part of the senior judge...he made the concluding courtroom scene just a little too silly. And, Lee Bowman's part -- as the "other" man -- could have been defined a little more sharply. I felt a little sorry for Edward Arnold, who was once a leading man himself, but was made to look a bit foolish in this film.Rosiland Russell was perfect as the female judge. In the past couple of years, as I've seen more of the old Rosiland Russell films, I have come to realize what a fine actress she was, particularly in comedy.The story moves along reasonably well, although perhaps it's a bit far-fetched to think anyone would attempt to influence a judge in the manner done here, but it makes for a gently funny script.I doubt this will end up on very many home DVD shelves, but it's rather pleasant, and worth watching...at least once.

Neil Doyle ROSALIND RUSSELL plays another one of her working woman roles as a divorce court judge playing a tricky game of wits with her male sparring partner WALTER PIDGEON.He's a newspaper man who makes a deal with EDWARD ARNOLD to get the female judge (Russell) off her high pedestal so that she loses her job and he can save his grateful boss from having to pay high alimony. It's strictly cornball comedy/romance with neither star having material worthy of their star status.It's second rate as romantic comedy and nothing--not even the competent supporting cast--can do much to raise it above the ordinary level. The script is a virtual hodge-podge of clichés, the sort of film Russell found herself typecast in year after year during the '40s.LEE BOWMAN has another one of his thankless second string roles, MARY BETH HUGHES pouts prettily and JEAN ROGERS is merely decorative as a scheming femme fatale.It's all pretty artificial but it passes the time on a dull afternoon.

sol (There may be Spoilers) Zany and sophisticated 1941 screwball comedy that has big city newspaper mogul J.M "Cuddle Baby" Bair, Edward Arnold, enlisting his former ace reporter "Smilin Jeff" Sherman, Walter Pigeon, to do a job for him. "Cuddle Baby" wants Jeff to get the goods on the Judge who just threw the book on him giving his gold digging 22 year former party girl wife Adele, Mary Beth Bowman, a $250,000.00 settlement in his divorce suite.J.M feeling like a fool to be taken to the cleaners by Judge Cornelia Porter, Rosalind Russell, tries to get her transfered out of her job presiding over family matters in divorce court, so his appeal against her decision would be handled by a judge that he can buy off. J.M then find out that she's just been elected to a six year term and has an impeccable record as a jurist. Jeff comes up with this scheme to get Judge Porter involved in a love triangle with him being the effected party who's affections are stolen from his future wife Dotty, Jean Rogers, by the Family Courts straight as a arrow Judge Cornelia Porter.working all the angles Jeff finds out that the Judge is an armature sculpture and artist. Finding she's going to the Cape Cod artist colony to spend the summer Jeff get's a local sculpture from there Alexander Roaul, Leon Belasco, a job back in NYC to paint the JM Blair Building as Jeff moves into his studio and in on Judge Porter trying to impress her with his, really Raouls, art works.Jeff at first trying to entrap Judge Porter by romancing her starts to fall in love with the judge. Soon he scuttles his plans that he concocted with both Dotty and his boss J.M Blair. J.M is outraged with Jeff for leaving him out in the cold and having his "fiancé" and "future wife" Dotty stick "Cuddle Baby" Blair with a $5,000.00 tab, plus all the furs and jewelry she could buy with his checkbook, to go along with Jeff's insane scheme.With the case now going to court Blair knows that he'll lose, again, in the courts when the "other woman" in Jeff's life Judge Porter takes the stand. Jeff instead of accusing her of destroying his "marraige", that's still some two months away, with Dotty admits that he's in love with Judge Porter and thus has the entire case against her thrown out with now "Cuddle Baby" Blair, as well as Jeff, facing time behind bars for trying to frame the good and incorruptible Judge Porter.While all this is going on Blair came to an agreement with his former wife Adele to drop her divorce settlement against him for a lump sum of $150,000.00 saving him almost $100,000.00 in divorce payments. Later Blair find out to his shock and surprise that she was to marry a rich old oil geezer, John D. Rockerfeller Jr?, the next day after she already cashed his check! If Blair waited one more day his divorce payments would have been immediately halted since she was to be married and wouldn't be entitled to them!Judge Porter, or Cornelia, finally realizes that she's in love with the buffoonish but handsome Jeff Sherman forgets all his zany antics and tricks that he played on her by now knowing that his heart not his brain was in the right place but not always at the right time.