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InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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mmallon4 Whenever I watch a classic movie with two love interest leads with astounding chemistry I'm often left in suspense wanting to see the two together at the end. The Bride Came C.O.D. is one such film.I find William Keighly to be a director of mediocre films; The Bride Came C.O.D. is a major exception. Past the not entirely electrifying opening, once James Cagney and Bette Davis where alone in the dessert and constantly bickering at each other I knew I was going to enjoy the hell out of this film. I was enjoying the presence of these two so much at one point I found some initial disappointment when a third character showed up despite the two being stuck in the wilderness. It felt like someone crashing at a party so it's a good thing that I did grow to like this character; the movie really does get better and better as it progresses.The movie takes place over a less than 24 hour time period and I'm pretty sure in real life two people couldn't go from hating each other to madly in love within a time period of this length, but The Bride Called C.O.D. is movie fantasy. The film has one pivotal scene which elevated the film from being great to excellent in which Davis tells Cagney in a tearful breakdown of how she has had everything handed to her in life. No longer was the movie just a laugh riot, I now had characters whom I was emotionally invested in. It's a testament to Bette Davis as an actress that she has the ability to tug the heart strings like that in an instant. I'm generally not a huge of Davis, I find her roles in numerous soap opera romantic tragedies off putting, thus it was a pleasant surprise to discover her natural ability for comedy. Perhaps that dame could have been undoubtedly the outstanding screwball of her generation!

SanteeFats Pretty standard fare for the time. The cast is loaded with stars of the era lead by James Cagney and Bette Davis. I have always had a problem with Bette Davis as a love interest. She is a heck of an actress but I never have found her attractive. Anyway the humor is not bad and got laughs a few times. You can see the end developing after the plane crash when they spend the night out in the open and then find a ghost town with one old timer still around. The old timer arrests James as a kidnapper and then learns he is not. The old timer and Bette rehab a thirty year old abandoned car. They get it running but there is no way the tires would not have rotted in that time. They crash it and Bette lands in another cactus patch, heh, heh!! An air search finds the abandoned airplane and the race is on between the father who wants to stop the impending marriage of Bette to a bandleader played by Jack Carson, a real ham, of course Jack is in the race, an LA sheriff, and other assorted types. The first to arrive is from the LA county sheriff played by Fred Mertz (William Frawley)!! Next to fly in are four reporters, then Carson shows up with a judge to marry the two. There is some chicanery to keep Bette from being found but she is eventually found, thinking they are in Nevada the judge performs the wedding in the ghost town, then they find out the town is actually in California. They couple don't believe him, take off for LA, Bette sees a pillow that shows the town is in California so jumps from the plane to get away from Carson. Dad has finally shown up and things work out as I thought, Bette and James end up hitched, dad is happy, and all ends well except for poor ol' Jack Carson.

vincentlynch-moonoi A foreign friend once told me that he just didn't "get" James Cagney; "nobody acts like that." And I have to admit that the performances where I most enjoy Cagney are where he plays off his typical character -- "Yankee Doodle Dandy", for example. This is one such film. We don't usually associate Cagney with comedy, and he seems a bit relaxed here...and it's delightful. Similarly, we usually think Bette Davis as a dramatic actress, and she shines here because her character is spunky and irreverent, and there are just enough opportunities for her to display her sharp tongue. She, too, is delightful. William Frawley, Eugene Palette (with his barrel voice and barrel body) and Stu Erwin are great additions to the cast, but one of my favorite character actors -- Harry Davenport (as in the doctor in "Gone With The WInd") really shines here as a character quite different from what he usually plays. Jack Carson should have been a bit disappointed with his role...sort of wasted, although essential to the story line.The plot is screwball, so somewhat unbelievable, but this is a film to savor for the performances (particularly the chemistry between Davis and Cagney) and the setting (a busted gold mine town). Highly recommended.

Robert J. Maxwell There's not really too much to say about this somewhat fagged-out attempt at a fast-paced screwball comedy. It's a late example of a genre that was on the brink of extinction.Bette Davis, a little miscast, is the impulsive, spoiled, ultra-rich daughter of oil millionaire Eugene Pallett. In Los Angeles, she agrees to become the third wife of the shallow band leader, Jack Carson. Learning of this, her apoplectic father calls the pilot who is to fly the happy couple to their marriage in Las Vegas, James Cagney, and bribes him into kidnapping her and bringing her home to Amarillo. Cagney owes $1120 on his airplane. He agrees to deliver Davis to Texas at a charge of ten dollars per pound, enough to pay off his debt and leave him a few hundred extra, the amount to be paid on delivery. That's where the title comes from. "The Bride Came C.O.D." -- cash on delivery, get it? Once in the air Davis discovers the plot and jumps all over Cagney, causing the airplane to make a rough landing in the middle of the desert. Davis jumps out the door and lands in a prickly pear cactus. Cagney extracts the spines one by one, enjoying it, while Davis howls. This is supposed to be funny.There is an abandoned mining town nearby, populated by a single old coot, Harry Davenport. When it is reported that Cagney's ship is missing, the air is filled with airplanes while reporters, fathers, and prospective bridegrooms frantically search for Davis.Amusing incidents ensue as Davis and Cagney predictably fall in love and are climactically mated.Cagney brings his usual speedy élan to the role of the no-nonsense but good-humored pilot. Davis ought to be good but for some reason comes across as too shrill. As a potential mate, she's a minefield of erection killers. Maybe it's the director. There aren't enough moments when she thinks and acts soberly. The impression the film leaves is one of haste and silliness. The incidents and the wisecracks are simply not that funny.It's a little sad when a genre dies. Early screwball comedies had a lot going for them -- "Bringing Up Baby," "The Palm Beach Story," and especially "It Happened One Night," which has a working-class reporter squiring another madcap heiress around, teaching her how to dunk donuts and all that. However, this was 1941, marking the end of this brief cycle and the beginning of World War II. What remains of it is nostalgia and late-night television.