perhaps the wild outlier in alfred hitchcock career be this straight out comedy vehicle by the director and pair carole lombard with robert montgomery a a couple who discover a mistake have invalidate their marriage . where do they really stand with each other . contrary to what others say and there be an element of suspense here represent the idea that these two miserable people might escape each other and free to inflict their awfulness on some other and undeserving mate . it funny read comment here about how miserable lombard ann smith play out in this film and because montgomery role be as much of a heel . he manhandle ann and snap at witness and short shrift client just the kind of lawyer who give his profession a bad name . ann be overbear and too and of course and the kind of wife who hold her husband hostage from work for six day over a petty squabble and bring up thing like what he do in paris when he be 20 and hadn not even meet her yet . i forgive you that . she say and a if it be big of her . for david and a revoked marriage be an opportunity to have a little illicit pleasure with his mistress before tie the knot for good . for ann and it an attempt at premarital sex that must be repel with a bottle of champagne to the head and follow by expulsion from their apartment and her life . the acorn doesn not seem to fall far from the tree and a ann mother be scandalize into apoplexy when she learn what david try to pull represent oh my poor baby . thank heaven your father be dead . that a rare good line in this laughless and unlikeable comedy . you can call this an example of the remarriage comedy and in which the bond of matrimony be challenge in order to be reaffirm . you can also call this an example of what roger ebert call the idiot plot and in which the storyline depend on the main character act like idiot . hitchcock seem to have a laugh at uptight american morality and but can not really do much more with it than a jokeless scene where an old couple be scandalize by the sound of loud plumbing . lombard die within a year of this film release while it be the last film of hers she live to see . what a shame it couldn not have be something well . she be overbear in my man godfrey and too and but in such a likable way you do not just have to go with her and you want to . here she play for laugh that aren not there while sadistically break david chop again and again . montgomery roll his eye a lot like groucho and a study in smugitude . the only really decent thing in this movie that last more than a few second be gene raymond a david law partner jeff custer and who make a play for ann and act with honor and decency . raymond underplays his many reaction shot and and even a drunk scene and all to good effect . spoilerso decent a guy be jeff that ann end up reject him for not fight david after she goad him into a confrontation and call custer a lump of jelly . jeff exit the scene and leave ann and david together for their future murder suicide . here one custer that manage to escape a massacre . spoiler end .