Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Be My Wife (1921)

*mild spoilers ahead*

 A man is wrongly suspected by his wife of having a date with another woman, and in turn suspects her of having a date with another man. The suspected rendezvous place (where in fact that double infidelity is actually happening with a friendly couple) in both cases is a clothes shop which clandestinely provides that kind of service along with equally clandestine alcoholic beverages (it's the Prohibition era).

I found this comedy quite mediocre, though by no means painful to watch. The mechanical transformation of the shop's fitting room into rendezvous room is kind of funny with the workers always in their respective positions. The most curious bit from a, say, social point of view is the fact that, judging from this film, people in those days called the cops to catch their respective spouses on the act of adultery. Not much else I can find to say about it.

Rating: 42

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