Napoleon’s underwear
December 14th, 2005 at 01:37 (1930s)
Watch the first minutes of this movie and you might think you’re watching the wrong version because it starts with French dialogues. Of course that happens all the time in French movies but seldom in US American like the one we’re looking for today.
Like many films it’s based on a play but it’s said to retain only a single line of the original play. Oh, and it’s a pre-Code talkie so there are some things in there one couldn’t see/hear the next twenty years after its release in US pictures.
“For the good of our immortal souls!” was really the only line of Noel Coward’s play used in the film “Design for Living”.
“Boys, it’s the only thing we can do. Let’s forget sex.” I wonder if Mirrian Hopkins realised the impact of that line when she quoted it.
I guess I just have to reduce the hints to some picture and the decade…right again. It’s Ernst Lubitsch adaption of Design For Living.