Atemlos nach Florida (1942)

Atemlos nach Florida: Directed by Preston Sturges. With Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee. An inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying a millionaire.

“Even more dementedly frantic than The Lady Eve, this film is Preston Sturgesu0026#39;s most delirious screwball/slapstick romance, with one of the most amazing bits of comic combustion in the Ale and Quail Club train sequence. Itu0026#39;s not as neatly structured as The Lady Eve, but itu0026#39;s filled with hilarious gags, lines, and performances. Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea are remarkably composed and relaxed, but Rudy Vallee, Mary Astor, and all the other performers outdo themselves in energetic tomfoolery. When Vallee complains, plaintively, that the problem with the world is that the men most in need of a beating are usually enormous, or when Astor slyly suggests that she grows on people, like moss, you know youu0026#39;re hearing Preston Sturgesu0026#39;s wit at its peak.”