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My Man Godfrey (1936)

Directed by: Gregory La Cava

William Powell .... Godfrey Smith/Godfrey 'Duke' Parke
Carole Lombard .... Irene Bullock
Alice Brady .... Angelica Bullock
Gail Patrick .... Cornelia Bullock

My Man Godfrey is a romantic comedy made in the 1930s and still one of the best Carole Lombard films out there. I bought this movie for around 10 dollars and expected the film to be in poor quality ... but the quality turned out to be very good! There is even a colourized version but it looks like something out of the 50s so i stuck with the original black and white version. The film was really good! It was really more of a William Powell movie as it was more centered on him rather than Lombard. I actaully prefer Gail Patrick's character, Corenelia - the evil sister, much more to Lombard's Irene. Cornelia was scheming but she was truly a dynamic character and realizes she was wrong in the end ... Irene doesn't seem to be aware of what is going on but she's honest and direct .... The plot consists of Irene and her sister going to a 'city dump' where they try to find a forgotten man in order to complete their scavenger hunt. Here Irene meets Godfrey, a homeless man, whom she later makes the family butler. Godfrey, albeit homeless, was actually an educated man who is more sane than most of the Bullock family. Irene falls in love with Godfrey and .... The best part of the movie was really the dialogue, movies these days really don't put much thought into them anymore (and even with the silent films back then ... "[they] had faces"!).

Ratings: 8/10. Really entertaining!!

posted by Dairy Fairy @ 1:30 p.m.