I Love You Again (1940)

I Love You Again (1940)

This is a very funny film definitely worth watching. It not only stars the great comedy duo from the Thin Man series William Powell & Myrna Loy but also features Frank McHugh. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man (1934)) this comedy drama’s screenplay was written by Charles Lederer George Oppenheimer and Harry Kurnitz; Leon Gordon & Maurine Watkins’s story was based on Octavus Roy Cohen’s novel.

Powell was a dashing con man that was bumped on the head such that he’d forgotten who he was and had become a boring clay pot manufacturer in a small town married to Loy. However the film opens with Powell on a cruise ship who having just rescued con man McHugh now remembers his previous life but not his current one. Finding that the person he’d been is actually worth something (e.g. has money in the bank) Powell with help from the enabling McHugh determines to "steal" his own money and hit the road. However when the cruise ship docks he’s met by an attractive woman (Loy) that he finds out is his wife though she’s seeking a divorce from the boring man he was to marry another Herbert (Donald Douglas). Intrigued Powell decides to return to the small town with McHugh in tow to learn more. Of course there are a series of hilarious misadventures as Powell romantically pursues his own disillusioned wife Loy causing her to see a side of her husband that she’d never seen before which interests her. But a former con man associate of Powell’s Duke Sheldon (Edmund Lowe) shows up convinced there must be a bundle to be schemed from the town folk and threatens to disrupt things. Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer appears as a boy scout in Powell’s small town character’s troop; Charles Halton (uncredited) plays his dad. Harlan Briggs Henry Hayden & Jason Robards Sr. appear uncredited as well.

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