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Too Many Women (1942)

1942 · Feature film · 66 min · dir. Bernard B. Ray

  • Comedy

Synopsis

Thanks to a fib intended to ward off an annoying real estate developer, a young bachelor finds himself engaged to three different women and pursued by a fourth, a gangster's sister.

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Details

Director
Bernard B. Ray
Writer
Eddie Davis
Studio
PRC, Beaumont Productions
Released
1942-02-27
Running time
66 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Cary, where were you when we needed you? · picfixer · 2011-12-04

Cary Grant would have turned this little comedy into a smash hit. The supporting cast is good enough and so is the screenplay. Oh well, so we have to settle for Neil Hamilton, a good enough actor in certain roles, but he is barely adequate in this one. Hamilton plays an otherwise ordinary guy who habitually lies his way out of minor troubles. Things get out of hand, when as a result three different women think they are engaged to him. (June Lang, Joyce Compton, Barbara Read) The first fifty minutes of this are mildly amusing. The real fun begins in the last sixteen minutes when everyone…

★★★ · Too many women? · revdaddy · 2012-07-15

This is a very cute film and worth watching. Neil Hamilton is totally wrong in this film. Carey Grant would have pulled it off, but I believe a much younger actor would have been better in the part (or maybe Jack Benny could have done it for high comedy).

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