Howard Hawks directs Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan and Marion Marshall in this wartime romantic comedy where a French officer marries a female US lieutenant and promptly discovers American military bureaucracy has no space for him.

More fun when it was a mismatched bickering pair, who you know will fall for each other, larking about in the ruins of Germany on a road trip. The second half of the film is the meat of the story. With Grant’s prig having to tie himself into knots trying to pass through bureaucratic loopholes. Eventually he ends in drag but it isn’t always worth the increasingly samey samey journey.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Awful Truth (1937)

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