It's not a truly successful film. Putting Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray in a puritan-era period piece, doesn't really work. It's an odd film with some entertaining parts, but it's not essential viewing by any stretch of the imagination.
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford 1936
Probably my favorite of the Thin Man-like movies William Powell made in the 1930's. He made a few of these, where he plays an amateur sleuth whose ex-wife or girlfriend gets him entangled in a mystery.
I like Jean Arthur in almost everything I've seen her in, and her comic timing is great here and compliments Powell's nicely.
She's not Myrna Loy, but that's a pretty high bar.The mystery is pretty good for a film in this era.
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So Long at the Fair 1950
So the Criterion Channel had this under Gaslight Noir. This is not Noir. It's a pretty great little period mystery, but there is no way this qualifies as a Noir.
If the main characters aren't doomed or ruined by the end of the picture, it's not noir.
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The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu 1930
At least, Jean Arthur got more to do in this one
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