ThiefHott Too much of everything

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Charles Herold (cherold) Divorce of Lady X is a screwball comedy that captures the basic screwball formula but fails to be actually funny.Olivier plays the staid guy while Oberon plays the wacky dame who disrupts his life. This leads to mistaken identities and general chaos.It's a formula that worked great in Bringing Up Baby, but fails here. There are a number of reasons. The direction is static, often revealing its origins as a stage play. Olivier is stiff, and Oberon tries to hard in what was to become known many years later as the manic pixie role.While many screwball comedies take their time getting their stars from hate to love, Lady X jumps the gun. This is particularly problematic because Oberon's character is genuinely awful, manipulative and self centered, and she never achieves the charming playfulness necessary to make that seem cute. Meanwhile, Olivier is a bitter misogynist. And yes, terrible people can fall in love, but it's still not convincing here.The mistaken identity part is a good idea but is completely unpersuasive, requiring Olivier to be dumb as a box and Oberon to reach an almost sociopathic level of scheming.Screwball comedies rely on charm and chemistry, as in Bringing Up Baby or It Happened One Night. Here the leads have iffy chemistry (they did better later on with Wuthering Heights) and not a whole lot of charm (at least by American standards; perhaps charm just isn't a British thing?).Yes, it's got big stars, but it's an old creaky movie that simply isn't all that good.

Cristi_Ciopron Olivier acts according to the requirements of his role, and the suggestion made isn't of bourgeois uprightness, but rather of naivety (because in cinema, save that you actually read the script, the character means the actor, regardless of what you guess or get about what the character should be supposed to look like), Morton Selten calls the barrister a jackass; he made me think of March and, since this is a British screwball, of how March should of made his role in a '30s screwball along the way shown here by Olivier. The Englishman was obviously more _telluric, more earthly than March, but also how deprived of the dreaded blandness is his acting! (I mean it's not only that March wasn't as handsome; his acting too left to be desired, in the '30s screwball I am thinking of.) And it doesn't take him long to outshine his costar, till she seems quite limited; with him, you get the feeling that you watch one of the greatest actors ever. Being a farce, the script doesn't offer much as characterizations.A sitcom with a variety of means (the gags in the hotel scenes) and an average script, unpretentiously efficient, with a certain heartlessness and coldness, but also nicely understated, and (if not artful) it's crafty and likable, and a very good place to become fond of the leading actor, larger than life over a modest storyline; Olivier was indeed mind-blowing. Binnie Barnes, the unfaithful manipulative adventuress, statuesquely sexy.Will the fresh husband become like the cheated Lord, or like the shrewd judge? There are no signs that the latter stopped recognizing his own youthful steps in the newfound enthusiasm of his niece's husband.If the farce seems basic, the movie is superior; I have found amusing the gags, and appealing the smoothness and ability. In this sitcom is found one of the basic premises of the screwball: a woman's determination and initial decision to marry a yet unaware man; from the beginning, she knows she'll marry him.

Flippitygibbit I loved the dialogue above all - the sharp and witty banter between British 'icons' Olivier and Oberon, and even the playful back and forth between Morton Selten as Lord Steele and H.B. Hallam as his long-suffering butler, Jeffries. Binnie Barnes was also superb as Lady Mere; her accent might have slipped, but she definitely had the right attitude for her character! The use of colour was also a plus, particularly with the wonderful outfits. I think Merle Oberon would have done better without the continuous close-ups - though she did have a certain magnetism, she doesn't quite hold up to such inspection - and Olivier was definitely better suited to the stage: indeed, that is probably where he thought he was, judging by the delivery of some of his character's lines. The improbability of the story aside, 'The Divorce of Lady X' is a wry 'snapshot' of its era: gender, class, morality - even weather (it's very hard to believe that London had smog so bad that people were unable to travel, but it did happen).

Sindaannuniel I have become quite fond of Laurence Olivier in the past few weeks, and was thrilled when I discovered this gem. I have always found it wonderful when I run across a film where I do not have to have my finger on the remote control in case nudity rears its ugly head.The Divorce of Lady X is charming till the final scene, and must have been a true delight for viewers back in 1938. I only wish people today could accept and love true humor instead of the horrid trash talk people now call funny.The Divorce of Lady X is well worth anyone's time.