Old pros Cary Grant and Myrna Loy are effortlessly splendid in their third and final on-screen coupling, leaving the director HC Potter to basically twiddle his thumbs.

This lightly sweetened tale is still remarkably meaty.

Blandings may turn out to be too citified for small-town audiences, and incomprehensible abroad; but among those millions of Americans who have tried to feather a country nest with city greenbacks, it ought to hit the jackpot.

It’s quite fortunate that Grant and Loy are such an amusing onscreen couple, and that the script is overflowing with humorous dialogue.