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Chicago Tribune: Sturges' dialogue, as always, is not only sharp, but cutting, delivered with typical flair by the charter members of Sturges' company of actors. Read more
Bosley Crowther, New York Times: It should have been a breathless comedy. But only the actors are breathless -- and that from talking so much. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: This might not be the funniest film of Sturges' brilliant '40s heyday ("The Miracle of Morgan's Creek"), or the most subversively romantic ("The Lady Eve"), or the best made ("Sullivan's Travels"), but it's definitely a censor-baiting treat. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Rudy Vallee turns in his best performance as a gentle, puny millionaire named Hackensacker in this brilliant, simultaneously tender and scalding 1942 screwball comedy by Preston Sturges. Read more