Nov 13 movie: I Love You Again. William Powell is a NY con artist who gets amnesia from being conked on the head. Amnesia turns him into a dreary, penny-pinching teetotaler in a small town in Pennsylvania. The funny thing is, all that happens beforehand. The movie begins with Powell getting conked on the head again, getting his original personality and memory back, and forgetting the nine years he spent in a small town in PA. He sets out to bilk the town, then discovers that he's married to Myrna Loy. Trouble is, she hates the penny-pinching drip he used to be and wants a divorce.
I don't know if that description makes any sense or not, but this movie was hilarious. Definitely "madcap," possibly even "zany." There is, however, one huge unanswered question raised by the movie: Powell showed up in this town a total stranger, with no idea who he was. Nine years later he was a pillar of the community, devoted to his mother, leader of social groups, manager of a pottery factory -- wait a sec. Devoted to his mother? Where did he get a mother from?
I seriously thought the movie was going to end with the real Larry Wilson, the man whose life Powell appropriated, showing up so that Powell and Loy could run off together. But there was nothing like that at all.
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