1h 11min | Comedy | 4 September 1953 | b/w
Director: Don Weis
Stars: Red Skelton, Jean Hagen, Charles Dingle.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045854/
Watched online, good print.
Only 2 songs in the Soundtracks, and only 1 performed (by Polly Bergen in a nightclub). I've submitted a genre deletion, and it was immediately accepted.
I wrote the summary above. The film is unpleasant, but at its conclusion amounts to propaganda attempting to support suburban sprawl. Amazing that this is a comedy, because it's endless anxiety about home ownership. One husband that RS interviews details the expenses of his wife working, "helping out with the expenses", and concludes that her extra $50 weekly income is really $20 weekly expense. If I were considering home ownership and saw this film, I'd chose to stay in an apartment rather than take the plunge. The concluding remarks about the nobility of ownership do NOT outweigh all the negativity we got for an hour.
JH is just a demanding wife here.
Fascinating to think that in '53 it was more expensive to live in suburbia (at least for the house they chose) than to live in a Manhattan apartment. Maybe it's still true.
MGM, dir. Weis; 6
