Alicia I love this movie so much

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

MartinHafer "Honeymoon in Bali" is a sweet romance that has inexplicably fallen into the public domain. Often, public domain films suck--but this one is far from sucky.The film is about a nice guy who has returned to the States to visit, though Bill (Fred MacMurray) lives in Bali (that's a very large island in Indonesia, if you care). After having a fortune teller inform her she'd meet someone, Gail (Madeline Carroll)--a high-powered career woman. The two kind of hit it off, but Gail isn't convinced that Bill is the man the fortune teller told her about...after all, he is moving back to Bali and she has her career. She also has a boyfriend already, and Eric (Allan Jones) seems like a very nice guy. However, when Gail meets Bill's young ward (Rosie, played by Carolyn Lee), her heart is captured. But how can Gail have Bill and Rosie in her life? After all, they're returning to Bali and she has her career...as well as Eric.The scenes between MacMurray and Carroll were very nice and they worked well together. However, the scenes between Carroll and young Lee were magical. Lee was perfect--adorable, but not too much and seemed very natural. I do wonder why she only had a few screen credits. Regardless, due to a nice story, very good dialog and some nice characters (Eric is exceptionally sweet), the film is just fun and a decent date film. Well worth seeing and available on YouTube and most likely also from archive.org since it's a public domain film.

dstanwyck Pretty much of a wreck of a film. Which is a shame, considering the talents of the beautiful Madeleine Carroll, the whimsical and as good as the best of movie comedians Fred MacMurray, the virtually unused Akim Tamiroff (save for the 2 scenes where he is cleaning the windows in heavy rain and again in heavy snow which I guess were supposed to be funny), the acerbic Helen Broderick. Too much of a back and forth kind of thing with the little moppet intruding her being into almost all the scenes, screeching and whining her lines giving child actors through out the world a bad name. Was it the director or just the forced energy of the child's own natural (or lack thereof) talents that insisted she display herself so annoyingly and endlessly into any potentially good moment of the movie. Give me Margaret O'Brien or Baby Leroy or Jackie "Butch" Jenkins or Dickie Moore or, of course, the multi-talented Temple any time and that would turn any movie around for the better. Maybe. But aside from that, not really much of a script, Carroll and MacMurray could not salvage any of it.

arfdawg-1 Also called My Love for Yours.Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City. Or does she?It's a trite well done film that is easily watched.

wes-connors Beautiful blonde businesswoman Madeleine Carroll (as Gail Allen) doesn't think husbands are necessary. In fact, she's become rich and successful by remaining single. And, she wants to stay that way. Then, a restaurant fortune-teller predicts Ms. Carroll will meet a man, and have a child (apparently, the "7 of diamonds" means children). Immediately, Carroll meets aggressive Fred MacMurray (as Bill "Willie" Burnett), a rich white man from Bali. Checking the film's title should give you an idea about where this story is going.Amusingly, the film's original title "Are Husbands Necessary?" had to be disguarded when its star headed for divorce court. In real life, Carroll found additional husbands. Edward H. Griffith's interesting direction introduces Carroll's character with a clever showcasing of her legs, as they are admired by window-washer Akim Tamiroff; and later, MacMurray is introduced with phallic symbols. But, while interesting in certain respects, "Honeymoon in Bali" is a fairly dreadful celebration of misogyny.An odd part of the film has Carroll dressing up a little girl in see-through lingerie, which the kid lifts for a startled MacMurray (her guardian). Then, the girl prays to "The Devil" on Carroll's telephone. Possibly, the devil bit was a comment on the girl's being from Bali. More weird is the trio's beach singing. Also, MacMurray throws Carroll on the ground. The location they chose for MacMurray's estate in Bali looks lush and lovely, and Benny Bartlett contributes a good bit (as "Jack" the singing telegram boy).**** Honeymoon in Bali (9/14/49) Edward H. Griffith ~ Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Allan Jones, Osa Massen