It is never very close-knit, but provides a number of comic situations that are good for guffaws.

The flimsiness of the film's foundations and the disorder of its episodes provoke the inevitable impression that it all fell together en route.

Howard Hawks's darkest comedy (1949) -- a loosely constructed, episodic film that traces the progressive humiliations suffered by Free French army captain Cary Grant.

There's a slowness to the pacing and the jokes that fail to fit the screwball nature of the couple's chaotic circumstances.