R.D.
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There aren't many comedies over 50 years old that I really enjoy today. However, I think David Lean's "Hobson's Choice" is as fresh and funny today as it was in 1954. Willie Mossop (John Mills) is a gifted but unappreciated bootmaker employed by the tyrannical Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) in his moderately upscale shop in 1880s Salford in Lancashire. Hard-drinking widower Hobson has three daughters. Maggie (Brenda De Banzie) and her younger sisters Alice (Daphne Anderson) and Vicky (Prunella Scales) have worked in their father's establishment without wages and are eager to be married and free of the shop. What follows is the very funny feel good story.
I think Alfred Hitchcock's Mr and Mrs. Smith is so funny. 1941 with Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery. I looked for this clip, I think it's hilarious. I only wish instead of the music it was the original sound track, but I guess the editing made it too difficult
Interesting. I assume the new Mr. and Mr. Smith (with Brad and Angelina) must be a remake of that movie! Wow! The things I'm learning here on this thread!
I don't think so, but I've never seen the other one
This one is about a couple who find out their marriage isn't actually legal and her deciding she wants to be wooed all over again, and he stubbornly just wants to carry on and simply "fix" the problem. So she kicks him out and starts dating forcing him to win her back.