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Article: Rex's green-eyed monster.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
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- July 4, 2005
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Unfaithfully Yours
Criterion/HomeVision, Image, color, NR, 105 min. plus supplements, monaural, fullscreen, Street: July 12, $29.95; First Run: L, Dec. 1948, NA
"A thousand poets dreamed a thousand dreams and you were born, my love. "The floridly romantic last line of this 1948 Preston Sturges comedy seems out of kilter with the film's knockabout slapstick, rapid-fire witticisms and severely dark humor (the most memorable scene being our hero's fantasy of slitting his wife's throat). It's therefore interesting to find out in an interview with Sandy Sturges (Preston's last wife) included here, that the picture's overripe last line was something he said ...