Ernst Lubitsch directs Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis and Herbert Marshall in this pre-code romantic comedy where a long con couple meet their match in a glamorous heiress who wants the male lothario.

Took me the first act to get into the rhythm of this but then it just flew. Really witty and quite saucy. The hucksters get a taste of their own medicine when a rich girl gets what she wants with a predatory zeal. There’s a lovely wiggle of truncated storytelling involving clocks going from long shot to close-up. Must watch more Lubitsch.

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Perfect Double Bill: Design For Living (1933)

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