It's such a lovely thing for a film obsessive when you stumble across a film you have NEVER heard of, with an actor you LOVE, and a film that quickly takes place on your top 20 favourite films list.
Edward Everett Horton does a spectacular job portraying 2 identical men, creating a myriad of belly laughs as he plays married, womanising lawyer Richard and identical comedian Richard.
Richard appears dedicated to his wife, but actually he's rather keen on seducing women as quickly and as discreetly as possible. Obviously this doesn't really cast him in the best light, so when a chance encounter with a comedic doppelgänger means he can 'slip under the net' and go about his cheating without being seen, it seems too good to be true. Although surely his wife will find out? Or at the very least the butler will tell? Or maybe the inevitable will happen and Richard AND Felix will get stuck in the same place...
It's almost farcical in a lot of scenes and EEH is perfect in this double part. As soon as I had watched it I had to re-watch it again just to make sure I would still laugh. I did.
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