The Grass Is Greener
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Movie Reviews of The Grass Is Greener
Movie Review: The Grass is greener - Always great to see
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie presents great actors and actresses, in some beautiful moments that remind us very good memories. Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, Cary Grant and Robert Mitchum are wonderful, that's all.
Katia
Movie Review: Great movie, so-so DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
The digital transfer is good, but I was dissapointed how few "extras" were on the disk. The movie itself speaks for itself. One of my favorite comedies with Cary Grant in it. I love this movie.
Movie Review: Too Much Snobbish Banter
Summary: 3 Stars
"The Grass is Greener" was made in 1961, and I wanted to see it because both Cary Grant and Robert Mitchum are main characters, along with Deborah Kerr. Overall the story is much better suited for a play, it is all talk and unrealistic English-mannered banter over a wife's infidelity. Cary Grant plays a British Earl strapped for cash, so he has tours of his English mansion to pay the rent. His wife (Deborah Kerr) plays a mushroom picking wife with two children (that we never see). One day a rich American tourist millionaire (Robert Mitchum) and decides he loves the Earl's wife and proposes to have an affair with her. The dialogue is pompous "stiff upper lip" as the actors play cold-hearted games with marriages and lives. The script does not fit Mitchum, nor Grant very well, although they do their best to save the film. I became bored. Cary Grant is much funnier in slapstick, like "Bringing Up Baby" - and Mitchum is better in Westerns and film noir. There is also the constant reference to a "Coo-Coo Bird" throughout, and I guess that was supposed to be funny. It just grates on one's nerves every time the bird is mentioned.
Overall it is snobbish, full of talk and a small silly plot of a wife cheating on her husband.
Movie Review: A Gentleman's Fight For His Wife
Summary: 3 Stars
Cary Grant and Jean Simmons are pictured on the cover of the DVD, but this is a movie about Robert Mitchum (an American) trying to win the heart of an English gentleman's wife (Deborah Kerr), and his (Grant) reaction to that attempt. Jean Simmons has a very small role in the movie as a friend of the wife.
The plot seems contrived at times, and were it not for such outstanding actors in these roles, the movie would fall flat on its face. However, when you have Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, and Robert Mitchum in the same movie, it is well worth watching.
I doubt any of us would chose the method that the husband (Grant) chooses to save his marriage, but how many of us live in a house that is so large private tours are shown through it just to pay the taxes.
Movie Review: Amusing If You Don't Expect Much
Summary: 3 Stars
I'll bet that when Mitchum was announced for the movie Hollywood sniggered. Yet I think he did a good job, and held his own with Grant. I've always liked Jean Simmons and think she's a fine actress. For all her fine-boned aristocratic looks, she can play a wide variety of roles. Check out the variety of her talent, before she came to America, as Ophelia in Olivier's Hamlet, as the native girl in Black Narcissus, and as the young Estella in Great Expectations. Grant had three heavy-weight actors to play with, and I think the combined skill level shows in the movie. It's one more drawing room comedy that, for me, gets a little tiresome, but it's watchable and amusing. I think a lot of the credit for this goes to the Grant/Mitchum casting, and to Simmons.