RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: May 17, 1940 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
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Mixed:
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Negative:
0
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Portland OregonianStaff (Not Credited)
A crisp, witty comedy on the Enoch Arden theme. [02 Apr 1999]
70
Tennyson wrote Enoch Arden in 1864, and the movies have been making versions of it ever since D.W. Griffith did it in 1908 (and again in 1911). This one is the most famous and the funniest.
50
It's too cruel to be all that much fun, and lacks the antagonistic zip of the earlier Dunne/Grant divorce romp The Awful Truth. [08 Nov 2003]