Dir: Richard Quine | Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovaks, Hermione Gingold | Fantasy Drama 106′ 1958
If you thought your in-laws are weird check out Kim Novak’s brood in this film.
Cary Grant actively sought the lead in this glossy comedy in colour; which Hitchcock ironically used as the excuse not to cast Jimmy Stewart in ‘North by Northwest’, and is now vaguely remembered as the ‘other’ film he made with Kim Novak (whose beauty always seemed almost supernatural).
Frequently credited as the inspiration for the TV series ‘Bewitched’ (although that distinction more properly probably belongs to I Married a Witch) you certainly won’t find a collection as eccentric as Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Elsa Lancaster and Hermione Gingold. ©RichardChatten
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