Film Review
The Bride Came C.O.D. may not
be the most sophisticated of screwball comedies, but it scores very
highly on the fun-o-meter, with James Cagney delivering plenty of
laughs, mainly at the expense of his co-star, Bette Davis. It's
not the first time the two actors appeared together - they had
previously worked alongside one another in the 1934 film
Jimmy the Gent - but it would be
their last.
Cagney is famous for man-handling his female
co-stars in his films - a trend he began when he thrust a grapefruit
half into Mae Clark's face in
The Public Enemy (1931).
Here, Bette Davis gets the full Cagney treatment, including headbutt,
fireman's lift, catapult onslaught, and, best of all, having cactus
spines plucked from her derriere. The sight of Cagney and Davis
smooching isn't quite so appealing, but, like most things in life, one
has to take the rough with the smooth. Yes it's silly, yes
it's predictable and
ludicrously
contrived, but, in spite of all that,
The
Bride Came C.O.D. is well worth seeing - a mad, mad romp that is
guaranteed to brighten any dreary day.
© James Travers 2008
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Film Synopsis
In the hope of landing himself a nationwide publicity coup, bandleader Alan
Brice persuades his fiancée, the heiress Joan Winfield, to elope with
him so that they can get married. Knowing that Joan's father Lucius
will do anything to stop the marriage from taking place, they intend getting
wed in another state. For this reason, they hire pilot Steve Collins
to fly them to Amarillo. When Lucius Winfield hears about the planned
elopement, he offers Steve a large sum of money in return for his errant
daughter.
Heavily in debt, this is not an offer that Steve can turn down, but as the
adventure gets under way he soon discovers that he has taken on far more
than he bargained for. Getting Alan out of his plane is the easy part
of the assignment. When Joan then slips through his fingers, Steve
is forced to go after her. Arriving in a deserted mining town, they
manage to get themselves trapped in an old mine. Faced with the prospect
of imminent death, Joan feels impelled to re-evaluate her life, and it is
then that Steve realises he loves her...
© James Travers
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