THE LADY EVE is a film in which all the beauty and romance can be seen in one scene. Barbara's fingers in Henry's hair. Funny and sexy certainly is, but I think it's just the scene saved movie. Adventurer and impostor on board "cast about" the rolled up and unworldly rich young man who returned from an expedition from Amazon. The story does not offer anything other than a good fun.Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Harrington has done well in different situations. A thief who is both reliable and honest. A vicious seductress who is also very romantic. Digger who does not want money. Honestly, I'm not so keen with her appearance in the film.Henry Fonda as Charles Poncefort Pike He is a very unstable character. At the same time vulnerable and honest. The young man whose lack of love, but hard to get to it. It is hard to watch such a sucker while Eve wrapped him around her little finger.Bringing up Baby is repeated.I wonder if Henry is motivated enough? His character is something like a toy, which entertains and which enjoys a strong female character. After all, she wants him honestly. The film is simple. Romance and fraud in a strong physical comedy. A bit provocative and quite sufficient to the point of market and laugh.

Usually, when films have a male protagonist, they're strong and seemingly able at least a couple girls, if not one. In this case, Pike is extremely shy and awkward around women, which I found to be adorable. Jean, the other protagonist is a very strong woman in my eyes. She knows the con game like it's nobody's business, and she could be a little ruthless. But then while trying to con Pike, the plan backfires and she falls in love with him. Jean wasn't portrayed as a bad guy character, rather, she was a good woman with a good heart, and I liked how she went to show Pike that good girls aren't always good girls (shown with her Eve persona), and that bad girls aren't usually bad. The ending had me shocked, because Pike never knows that Jean was actually his wife Eve. It was hilarious, honestly. You'd think he'd find out that they were both the same person. but apparently not. Another thing I enjoyed was the symbolism through the snake and apple. Pike holds a huge love for his snakes, and they can be quite the charmer. I find that Jean was Pike's more human snake, seducing him into a romantic world, though she hurts him plenty with her fangs. That's the kind of girl I like, but again, I never saw Jean as a bad person. She's a well done character, and it makes me love the movie more for it.

I realize that the screwball comedy genre has its own kind of logic, but "The Lady Eve" strikes me as having no logic at all. Though well written, which one expects from a Sturges film, I came away with the unsettling sense that the audience was being played for suckers. The turning point in the film appears to be the moment when Hopsie was presented with a photo of Jean and her father as evidence of their swindling career. This can come as no surprise to the audience, which has already seen how the Colonel can turn a five-card nothing into four kings, then four aces. But can a supposed scientist (I forget the proper name for "snake hunter") be so gullible as to fall for his blatant card-sharpery? And when he confronts Jean with the photo, can his sense of betrayal and humiliation really be so shocking to her? Yet this event sends Jean on a completely preposterous crusade of revenge. What exactly is her trick? To pose as an upper-class Brit who, by coincidence, looks exactly like Jean. And though Muggsy, Hopsie's dimwit ward, sees though the imposture immediately, our scientist falls for it, literally and figuratively, in no time.Jean/Eve finally delivers the coup de grace while on their honeymoon -- in a train, of course. As she divulges her numerous supposed dalliances, Sturges intercuts shots of train whistles, lightning and the obligatory tunnel. Maybe this Freudian stuff was novel back in 1941; today it verges on self- parody. Watching Hopsie detrain with a muddy pratfall (one of literally dozens in the film), Eve/Jean seems to have an attack of conscience, as though she's just now realizing he "the only man I ever loved." Stanwyck is sensational, even if her character(s) make no sense at all. William Demarest is very good, and occasionally hilarious, as Muggsy. The whole case, in fact, is first-rate. But Fonda's character is impossible to sympathize with, let alone root for, so improbably clueless and clumsy is Hopsie. Is he really surprised that an English aristocrat is not a virgin (the whole point of the setup)? Is he really so stupid as to fall for a grifter not once, but twice? Yes, evidently he is. It's clear to me that his real element is with the snakes of the Amazon, not those of Connecticut.

Charles the man that just came back home seems to have every woman watching him everywhere he goes but one finds a way to get his attention. This may turn into a relationship, but what if it ended and the girlfriend disguised herself as another woman and makes Charles fall for her again and not even know it. Now that would be funny, but wait she just makes it even better as the Lady Eve to create more comedy with that.Eve knows how to wrap herself around Charles who isn't the brightest around women is able to create a great screwball comedy that will make anyone laugh. The two characters take the audience through another film that you really don't need to understand as long as you are laughing.A great film done by Preston Sturges probably one his best I have seen with a great set of actors that make the comedy so good.