One Rainy Afternoon

The best words are "frothy" and "charming" for this romantic comedy offering Francis Lederer and Ida Lupino in what is usually termed a French farce. We know that Ida went on to a formidable career as both actress and creative mover in films and TV, but I was very curious about Lederer, about whom so much less is known. Transitioning from work in his native Czechoslovakia, he established himself in Hollywood as a smooth, charming lead actor who loved teaching acting and made a fortune in California real estate. He continued working (TV) until 1971 so had a very long career notwithstanding the fortune that could have freed him from working.This film shows him as his most scintillating, charming self and Lupino at the start of a glorious career. Splendid 1930s sophisticated comic talents Hugh Herbert and Roland Young form part of the supporting cast.

Ida Lupino was gorgeous, and portrayed such a lovely girl; she was perfect in her role. This took place back in time proper young ladies were accompanied by their chaperones. Courtship was a lovely custom; maybe time for a return?This is a fluffy story with romance, some drama, witty dialogue. love of father & daughter, a pompous fiance, a prince charming, an antagonist and a zany sidekick.A fun movie for viewing on some "rainy afternoon."

The audio is a bit lacking but still clear enough to understand, as with most of these old time videos on Amazon it seems like the captions are completely out of step with the film. The acting is good, the camera work is good and there are very few lingering glances at jokes the director really wanted to give us time to appreciate.Now for the content warning. This is a film that romanticizes and minimizes sexual assault. If you or the person you're watching with does not want to be exposed to a french man waxing poetic about how grabbing a woman and kissing her is okay don't watch the movie. If you don't want to watch all the people who are anti-accosting women being portray as jealous old bags don't watch the movie. If you don't want to watch the victim pay his bail only to be confronted by him again and again steer clear. If you want to have some insight as to the media landscape that elderly judges grew up in that makes them think a women with too tight jeans can't be assaulted? This might be an interesting bit of media.

Cute movie about a man who kisses wrong girl when he sits in wrong seat in theater and tons of trouble is caused when the local Moral Majority gets involved and carried away. I like Ida Lupino as the ingenue rather than older woman I'm used to seeing her play and Hugh Herbert is a hoot!There are two copies of this movie and this is the cleaner version.

Absolutely delightful. Sound is fine, but the video quality is distinctly poor. I suspect a sixteen millimeter print was the only available source material.

A perfect or even good copy of this screwball gem doesn't exist. My copy came from Oldies.com and it's bearable. Still, one should not overlook the movie itself because it's hilarious and inspired. Warner Brothers sent many of its stable of zanies into the film along with charming and funny Frances Lederer and young, beautiful Ida Lupino. Donald Meek and Hugh Herbert almost steal the show. Don't miss this one.

Ida Lupino was always enjoyable to watch in her various roles, but she was never as sweet and adorable as she was in "One Rainy Afternoon." Great leading and supporting actors, and a nice story. And if you don't fall in love with Ida Lupino after watching this little gem of a flick, you must have a heart of stone.

A bad print but highly recommended. Lederer and Lupino are both gorgeous and charming. Great supporting cast, even includes one trick pony Hugh Herbert.

Philippe Martin (Francis Lederer) is a struggling actor who accidently kisses Monique (Ida Lupino) in a darkened cinema thinking that she is someone else. This incident causes a scandal which goes to court. In the meantime, Philippe's stage career takes off and we end with a theatre performance where the story depicts the recent events and we even have a song about it.This film isn't very good despite having 2 good main actors in the lead roles. I expected more from Lederer and Lupino but there just wasn't anything in the script to deliver. The film is about an incident which is not capable of carrying a whole film. It also contains a very annoying Hugh Herbert as "Toto" who is given comedy music when he appears, which is all the way through the film. His character helps ruin the film. But it is a film with a nothing story to begin with. Shame the two main actors wasted their time with this.

When I first considered buying this dvd, I was put off by the poor review on Amazon.co.uk. Fortunately I thought to look at the reviews on Amazon.com as well and those were good so I went ahead and bought the dvd. Am I glad! It was wonderful. Lederer in fine form, Lupino beautiful and the movie had lots of very good lines that had me laughing out loud (unusual for me). Could have done without the slapstick parts but even those bits couldn't detract enough from the rest of the movie to put me off. I will be watching this again and thoroughly recommend it.

Out of Focus. Sent it back. Refunded.