But through horse trainer Mike North, Brad is embroiled in the case of a jockey who died of "heart failure" during a race. Every bit the suave charmer as the first time I fell under his spell with i’d have a rough life if i lived in the world of this movie because if william powell was my doctor i would be ILL every day and if jean arthur was the local detective i’d be committing SO many crimes.1930s-early 1940s divorce romcoms are my favourite niche genre. It's not Jean Arthur's fault that her wife character is an annoying nuisance the whole time and behaves like an insult to women, but it's there.think if the thin man series had jean arthur, whom i adore. There are some cute scenes, but the whole thing is sort of half-way there.Did I mention I'll watch anything with Jean Arthur in it? William Powell. The story is pretty weak, there isn't much mystery worth solving, and Arthur's character is written as sort of a ditz, which really doesn't become her or mesh well with Powell, who retains some of the Nick Charles charm here. This…Updated on 7/15/2020 - A list, arranged in order of original release, of all films associated with the Criterion Collection,…From 'The Screwball Comedy Films: A History & Filmography, 1934-1942' by Duane Byrge & Robert Milton Miller. But still, William Powell + Jean Arthur = me feeling I like how when you need to record something on the sly in 1936, you need 8 news cameramen placed in various precarious positions to capture one teensy bit of evidence, something I'm sure they'd all willingly agree to do for free if you asked nicely. "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford" (1936), starring Thin Man series star William Powell (this film was released the same year as the second Thin Man film, "After The Thin Man," comes very close to duplicating the fun and style of the Thin Man films, but it nonetheless misses. A pleasant, entertaining way to spend a little time.Jean Arthur. “Voice like a million tiny tinkly bells.” Arthur. A doctor helps his ex-wife solve a murder mystery, instead of playing golf or whatever it was that doctors did at that time. Tedious at 82 minutes (and unfunny).As much as I love Powell and Arthur, it's really not possible to re-create the Loy/Powell magic without Myrna Loy. William Powell. Corny dialogue and a not too mysterious mystery. This combines my favourite screwball trope that William Powell ALWAYS gets cast in (fun young woman pursues disinterested man who eventually comes to appreciate her manic ways and they get together at the end even though they might not even like each other) and subverts the classic divorce romcom trope of ex-husband trying to win back ex-wife, creating the galaxy brain concept of ex-wife Jean Arthur pursuing ex-husband William Powell and I love it so much. Paula Bradford James Gleason. His first full length film ,Among the ‘funny’ jokes; Jean trying to knock out the bad guy and ,on two occasions ( as if once wasn’t enough) , hitting William instead.According to IMDB, the film was very popular and very profitable for RKO. This time he's a surgeon and she's a writer of whodunnits but it all points in the same direction as the Nick and Nora franchise, borrowing its plot structure, playful tone, and gathering-of-suspects-to-reveal-the-culprit outcome. I am not a Jean Arthur fan but she worked well with Bill Powell. Cohn, however, rushed her into two more productions, Adventure in Manhattan (1936) and More Than a Secretary (1936). Yeah, I was pretty much predisposed to love this. F***ing. I would claim she could conjure chemistry with a blank piece of wood, but that’s doing my man William Powell some serious disrespect. Anyways, this was a nice mystery movie that didn't remind of something else almost exactly.This list collects every film from the Starting List that became They Shoot Pictures Don't They's 1000 Greatest Films. They divorced because Brad hated being dragged into murder mysteries, to which mystery writer Paula is addicted. There are some cute scenes, but the whole thing is sort of half-way there.I like how when you need to record something on the sly in 1936, you need 8 news cameramen placed in various precarious positions to capture one teensy bit of evidence, something I'm sure they'd all willingly agree to do for free if you asked nicely. And the movies that have Eric Blore need more Blore. This was the last film directed by Stephen Roberts before his untimely death from a heart attack. loved both instances of the doctor tackling someone without a second thought followed immediately by paula grabbing the heaviest object within her reach. Dr. Lawrence Bradford Jean Arthur. So you can imagine I was properly chuffed to discover that it’s genuinely really good. I usually don’t write about films I haven’t liked, but watching The Ex-Mrs. Bradford with two favourite stars, William Powell and Jean Arthur made me realise that if ever proof was needed that a good script is everything, this film is it. To some folk on IMDB, this film… I also loved the moment when their voices cracked one after the other on the phone.A crime-comedy from another era, when things were simpler and plots not so outlandish. She and William Powell are adorable as exes who are still in love, and the racetrack scenes look great and are genuinely thrilling.Middling Thin Man riff.