Mr. & Mrs. Smith

MOVIE #1,532 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 04.12.24 EVERY OTHER FRIDAY I’M REVIEWING THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. THIS IS TGI-HITCHOCK! This is a little bit charming in an outdated kind of way, but it's a tough sell after the much bigger efforts which preceded it (his first two American films, Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent). Going back to his earliest talkies and even his silent days, the pure comedy never really suited Hitchcock. It's no surprise that this was the only true entry he made in the genre for the rest of his career.

Fun fact: going into this I thought there would be a spy/crime angle because I assumed that the 2005 Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie vehicle with the exact same name must have been some kind of remake, but nope: they just used that title again for some unknown reason and there’s zero connection. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Norman Krasna, and starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery. It also features Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale, and Lucile Watson. It was released on January 31, 1941.