first of all and let me tell you i be not a stranger to movie of the 30 . i love film of that era and i admire katharine hepburn and i truly consider cary grant a one of the great actor ever . these fact be the reason why i be really interested in watch this movie and however these same fact do not give me the permission to excuse and admire every movie of the 30 i watch and find average ( or in this case way below average . ) spoiler below . let start from the script . what kind of a story be this . it seem to me that after the 3 leading character be be introduce to u and the writer have absolutely no idea a to there the plot should turn to . so they try hard to write down whatever come to their mind in a desperate effort to create a standard 80 minute long feature . some example represent 1 ) what be the reason why sylvia cut her hair short and become sylvester . because her father tell her it be much easy for the authority to trace an old man with a girl than if he be with a boy . so and what do she do . she cut her hair . and every problem be solve and even if this mean they be able to make it to another country with no paper of sylvia a sylvestro . a hair cut be enough . 2 ) how about jimmy monkley . he create all the mess at the harbor just because he be carry diamond on his heel . a if there be a chance that when he open his suitcase the diamond would come out of his shoe . what about his second encounter with the scarletts . he reveal them his secret take out of his pocket a very large bundle of money and buy them out . and then and 5 minute later and when they be in london and he be completely broke and so be they . 3 ) the affair between henry scarlett and maudie . without any clue and we suddenly watch henry dreaming and yell out maudie name a if he be her beau and and when he wake we suddenly realize by the way he be treat her and that he really be her boy . completely ridiculous . we never saw not even one hint that something be go on between them until that dream sequence . and it be even more ridiculous consider the fact that maude be slightly old than his daughter and who be a witness of all this the whole time . 4 ) maude disappearance . maude do not fit in the story . that be obvious . but make her disappear on a rainy night and without a further explanation on her whereabouts and be stupid . 5 ) henry death . henry be a terribly write character . so a the plot evolve something have to be do with him . in order to give scarlett the chance to end happily the story . so what do we do . we through him off a cliff and scarlett mourns desperately ( about 5 second ) and 3 minute later she be all full of nerve and joy chase cary grant . 6 ) how about the russian girl . we get convince she love desperately the painter and yet at the end of the movie she use him only a an argument to persuade jimmy on go to paris . and how the hell do sylvia come to the conclusion that she try to kill herself by drown . do you notice anything i do not . just because she couldn not swim . 7 ) the painter ( michael fane ) be equally funny ( in a bad way ) a a character . he give sylvia his car cause he couldn not drive with a hurt finger . lord have mercy . he love the russian girl and yet in 5 day he forget her and come to be deeply in love with sylvia dress a a boy . i could go on forever and but i have make my point . a i watch the movie more and more i have the idea that no one from the creative team really know what they want to do . the character be make from paper and their feeling and sentiment be completely absent ( do jimmy ever love sylvia . one moment it seem so and 2 minute later he run away with the russian girl ) and the dialogue be terrible ( i recall the scene where sylvester become sylvia again and pay a visit to the painter and it give me the creep . ) never before have i see such a terrible conversation . remember guy and it 1935 be talk about and not 1925. the age of the movie be no excuse and 2 year later the awful truth would be film . a final word about the direction . george cukor have always be a great director and one of the best artist of his era . however and he also seem to be sweep by the total stupidity of his material . at the final scene and the train stop exactly 1 second after the painter pull the emergency break . and a if this weren not enough during this whole sequence and the outside background from the window remain the same and a if no one from the crew ever notice or care for the fact that it be obvious the train be never move . i apologize for the size of the comment and i also apologize if some of you fellow lover of the movie of the 30 find this comment embarrass or disturb . but this be truly my view on sylvia scarlett . thank you for your time .