I LOVE YOU AGAIN (1940)

Something magical happened whenever William Powell and Myrna Loy got together in front of the camera. Their easy banter made them one of the most popular screen teams. It got even better when they were directed by W.S. Van Dyke, the man who first brought them together in Manhattan Melodrama and then made them stars in The Thin Man (both 1934). He directed them in six films, with this as his only screwball comedy with the team. Powell is a respectable small-town businessman whose wife (Loy) is bored with him. Then a blow on the head makes Powell realize he’s been living with amnesia for nine years. He’s really a slick con artist who now decides to use the reputation he’s built up to fleece his neighbors. He falls in love with his wife all over again, setting the stage for hilarious conflicts with his partners in crime (Frank McHugh and Edmund Lowe).

d. W.S. Van Dyke, 99m, digital

Courtesy of Park Circus and Warner Brothers Classics.

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