Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

jeannebarrack I watched this movie unaware of the poignant moments in this screwball film. I decided to watch it as an opportunity to see a film with two of my favorite film stars. Yes, it was a preposterous plot for the most part, but it took an unexpected turn when Ginger's maid turned out to be Jewish. I knew immediately without having to be told this: I recognized the desperation in the actress's body language (and this actress did indeed flee Hitler as a persecuted Jew). When Ginger tells her to take her children somewhere safe, I answered with her spontaneously: "Where?" I was impressed that the plight of the Jews was even mentioned in a film produced in this time. The prayers that were chanted in the background when Cary and Ginger are held as Jews mentions the word "rachamon" meaning mercy. The war time films produced this early in our participation - and remember this film was supposed to be set just before we entered the war, - seldom were so explicit re. the persecution of Jews. I also responded to the photographer's character. Again, clumsy with those "accents/dialects" but the right impulse was there. There were other moments throughout the film that felt as though they were inserted just to remind the audience what was happening in Europe,but I didn't mind them. All in all, I enjoyed the film both for its comic moments and those unexpected moving ones.

writers_reign This turkey has some of the sloppiest writing ever inflicted on A-list actors and a journeyman director. Example: It begins in Vienna. Ginger Rogers, clearly blue-collar American has a fancy Park Avenue name, a well-appointed apartment, and, for good measure, is engaged to a ranking Nazi official, Walter Slezak. How did she get there? You tell me. Next: Cary Grant saddled with the name Patrick O'Hara (equalled, if not eclipsed, only by his 'cockney' Ernie Mott in None But The Lonely Heart. By 1942 Grant was the epitome of urbane sophistication and there were surely other Hollywood contract actors who could have handled the role. More? Throughout the film - set, don't forget, in a Europe more and more under Nazi control, Grant, an American citizen has no problem travelling freely from country to country and in several cases a scene ends like an unresolved chord and we take up the action at a later date in a 'once out out of snake-filled well' cavalier fashion. Journeyman Leo McCary was light-years short of Lubitsch who did this thing so much better in titles like To Be Or Not To Be or even Ninotchka. See it if you're a Grant or Rogers completist and while you're watching remember that this was what Grant was doing whilst other Englishmen who'd established themselves in post-war Holllywood like David Niven, were back in blighty in uniform.

nomoons11 Man I wanted to like this one but by the end, I was glad it was over.This one needed a coherent script and a whole lotta tightnin'. You know what defrag'n a hard drive is right? Well this film needed some of it. There was stuff missin, outta place and in the wrong place.There are so many scenes where Grant and Rogers don't say a word and I sat watchin' thinking'.."shouldn't there be some dialog?". My guess is the screenwriter won the job from a creative writing contest. The set-up on some of these scenario's were just like.."Huh?". There was no preparation.Grant is suppose to be getting the scoop on Rogers new husband, who happens to be a closet Nazi, but you really never know if he wants the story or not. He's either following her around and then leaving her to go do some Allied broadcasts for some country, then he's back with her again...blah blah blah. Gingers Rogers gets overlooked for he comedic stuff. I find her far more enjoyable to watch in those roles than the Fred Astaire dancing stuff. (For an example see "Vivacious Lady").Man this one needed a re-write. Not an enjoyable watch.

edwagreen This is truly an excellent film. It has everything-comedy, drama, tragedy and a vision of what the world was like in 1942. Let's remember that when the movie was probably being made, the U.S. had not entered the war as yet.It deals with a Brooklyn stripper from Parkside Ave. who lives in 1938 Austria and is about to be married to a high-ranking Nazi. Given her supposed limited intelligence, Ginger Rogers, as this gal, doesn't fully realize what she is getting into. She will be quickly educated by reporter Cary Grant, who is terrific in this role.Walter Slezak plays the heavy in the film and at first is successful in having Ms. Rogers believe that he is an anti-Nazi. No matter where the couple show up, the country soon falls victim to the Nazi terror.The plight of the Jewish people is shown by a maid and her 2 young children, all being Jewish, is helped by Rogers. The maid comes back later on to play a pivotal role when Rogers needs to escape. There is a scene where condemned Jews recite a Jewish prayer. How much more poignant can you get?There is constant intrigue in this film as you begin to wonder the true beliefs of someone who is helping Rogers, while getting her to spy for the allies.The ending may have been somewhat over-the-top, but it did provide for some comic relief to a subject that was very well handled here.