It's a Wonderful World (MOD)

It's a Wonderful World (MOD)If the idea of James Stewart masquerading as a gangly Boy Scout leader in oversized pants and Coke bottle glasses makes you laugh, It's a Wonderful World awaits! This wisecracking classic scripted by screwball master Ben Hecht (Twentieth Century, Nothing Sacred, His Girl Friday) stars Stewart and the marvelous Claudette Colbert in their only screen pairing. He's a private eye on the run from a conspiracy rap in a phony murder case. She's a dizzy poet

Howard Keel and Ann Blyth (who would later team for Kismet) play stalwart Mountie and backwoods hellion in this grand color and CinemaScope version of the beloved operetta

drop from a high rooftop into a waiting convertible - the only fall Skipper Clark and his devil-may-care pals won't take is to fall in love

because the temptress is really his wife in disguise

The world doesn't know and Dame Agatha never told

Tony Warrin has it all

Ian Hunter

where he romances manager Nora Craig (King)

who smoothly plays Ariane's detective father

Their stage costar Leif Erickson joins them in counterpoint as the emotionally clenched housemaster

but the point remains: The battle-hardened veteran is no one to take lightly

a little there - now you got it

The supporting cast includes Rosemary Lane (one of Garfield's Four Daughters costars)