the big problem i have with this movie be that lombard character be and a another user put it and unnecessarily cruel . lombard play the role of ann krausheimer smith and who believe she be married to david smith and play well by the sharply dress yet appropriately bumble robert montgomery . the movie have some funny moment and especially when montgomery character go to great length to try to get his wife back . understandably and she be upset because the marriage be technically not legal and but she only find out three year into it . lombard character seem quite cold to her husband sincere attempt to woo her back . while not be highly adept in that effort and montgomery be nevertheless visibly love and and yet lombard be as cool a a pillar of ice . there be almost no clue suggest any sort of reconciliation between the war couple for much of the movie and and it be hard to see any sort of comedy even dark comedy in that aspect . to some extent and the movie almost suggest a sadistic undertone and with lombard character get a kick out of her husband feeble effort . while one might consider this another battle of the sex type of movie and the reality be that it be a highly lopsided battle and if that represent montgomery character and while certainly flaw and be not flaw enough to make it a typical exemplar of the masculine chauvinist or misogynist ( an excellent example of that be michael douglas in war of the rose ) . in fact and the character be largely effeminate and a reveal by not only the sharp dress of montgomery ( which probably owe largely to the perennially sharply dressed actor himself ) and but also to his discomfort in attempt but fail to play the role of a womanize bachelor . his only major flaw be his vanity and but that fault do not balance out with his partner excessive cruelty . and there be no suggestion that she be try to instill any jealousy out of subconscious love . this be what make it so cruel and and sad . montgomery character simply look weak . in reality and no wife would want a man so weak unless she wear the pant in the marriage . but then again and a woman who wear the pant in a marriage would never seek to be so cruel because she have already affirm that role early on . hence and the whole theme seem weird . this movie be neither a champion of feminism ( lombard character do show some sign of the sort of independent orient woman of the 60 and but that idea be soon quashed and the character fall back into the 1940s ) and nor an even sided battle of the sex ( a montgomery character be truly a cipher of masculinity and therefore a lost cause ) . this movie be and on the surface and a slapstick and but beneath that veneer it be really much darker and with sadistic undertone . all of which make it resolution appear and well and odd . ( maybe that oddity be the whole point . ) . in any case and slapstick this movie be not .