Saturday, January 3, 2015

Life With Father

William Powell, Irene Dunn

Perhaps I'm getting cranky in my old age but I found this to be insufferable. WP plays a wall street tycoon who is an overbearing tyrant at home...lording it over his wife, children, servants very much like Charles Laughton as Henry 8.

He is meant to be lovable, sort of, but I kept hoping someone would slap this jackass in the face and lock him in a room until he had been socialized. It was like watching an out-of-control 8 year old brat who sees himself as the center of the universe and woe betide anyone who sees reality differently.

Features an early role by Eliz. Taylor as an over-eager ingenue.

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