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Easy Living


     
  Easy Living Review
Tookey's Rating
6 /10
 
Average Rating
7.00 /10
 
Starring
Jean Arthur , Ray Milland, Edward Arnold
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Directed by: Mitchell Leisen
Written by: Preston Sturges

 
 
 
Released: 1937
   
Genre: COMEDY
   
Origin: US
   
Colour: BW
   
Length: 91
 
 


 
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Mr Deeds without the beatitude, and thereby [it] succeeds in being about as immoral and iconoclastic as any American comedy can unconsciously be... This is, however, one of the most diverting comedies that have ever enlivened the Dog Days.

(Basil Wright, Spectator)

Packed with post-New-Deal satire on the customs of the banker class... Miss Jean Arthur and Mr Edward Arnold give a lot of flavour to a swell summer entertainment.

(New Statesman)

This mixture of crazy comedy, slapstick and farce has been skilfully blended. Imaginative and clever direction has made amusing light entertainment out of absurd and impossible, but novel, situations. The dialogue is crisp, the pace swift, and the story is put over with a delightful sense of the nonsensical.

(G.G. Patterson, Monthly Film Bulletin)

One of the most pleasurable of the romantic slapstick comedies of the 30s, and full of surprises.

(Pauline Kael, New Yorker)


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