The Grass is Greener - 1960

If you can't get even, get civilised.

This film is slated so much in reviews as being the one film that Cary Grant 'just isn't Cary Grant in' and I really don't know why. I find it a perfectly pleasant way to spend a few hours. Granted the actual story is quite ridiculous and seems only to take the mick out of upper class Englishmen for keeping a stiff upper lip even in the face of infidelity, but actually the film is a clever and fairly comic trip into life behind those closed doors of the married couples in England. Cary Grant is great, I will never ever critisise anything he acts in, as he is my favourite actor in the world, and Robert Mitchum is surprisingly suited to the par of the brash, arrogant American who steals the heart of Grant's wife Hilary (played prudishly by Deborah Kerr, the weakest of the three). If you are interested in seeing a supposedly 'typical' English scene then the one to look out for is the one with the duel, in fact it is so absurd that this part of the movie does begin to look like a joke, but it soon picks itself up. A good show of a film, with some good acting and enjoyable moments.

Rating 4/5