Here's Lucille Ball and George Brent in a very talky comedy, written and produced by the team of Michael Fessier and Ernest Pagano. On the credit side, this film is nicely dressed, capably played, and reasonably well directed by the usually efficient but not particularly imaginative William A. Seiter. That, however, is the total line-up of this movie's merits. In all other respects, it has absolutely nothing to recommend it. The writing is awful. The situations are not only boringly old-hat, but to add insult to injury, they are drawn out to impossible lengths. And what's far worse, of course, is that they were not even the least bit funny to begin with. Not only are the situations a total write-off, the dialogue is not the least bit funny either. Not a single one of the lines could be described as either humorous or witty. And yet this is supposed to be a comedy. Even IMDb describes it as a comedy. Where are the laughs? In fact, this movie is just one great big yawn – a fact that soon dawned on the powers at Universal. The movie lost money on its first release. But when Lucille Ball became a household word, the movie was re-issued – under a different title of course, namely "When Lovers Meet".
Review of Lover Come Back
