Her Favourite Husband

This is supposed to be a comedy, but it isn't funny. Robert Beatty is a humble and rather bullied bank clerk who happens to look exactly like a ruthless gangster, who discovers the likeness and decides to avail himself of it by putting Robert Beatty out of the way (Antonio) and take over Antonio's part and identity in order to rob his bank. This all happens in Naples, so there is sure to be a tremendous mess of confusion. Antonio is happily married to Jean Kent (who bullies him) with a small son, and it so happens that her parents come from England on a visit, Margaret Rutherford being the formidable mother-in-law. Of course, in this film they all speak fluent Italian, but no one in the entire film speaks the Neapolitan dialect. The whole intrigue is artificial and impossible. How is it possible for a wife, married since many years, not to notice when her husband's place is taken by another? The only interesting character and actress in the film is Tamara Lees as the gangsters' femme fatale, who makes a striking entrance in the beginning of the film, and she is the only one in the entire film who doesn't get hurt nor fooled. Danny Green also has a part playing the ordinary great oaf of a professional hoodlum knowing only brute force as his only language. The only asset of the film is a great cinematography, but that cannot outweigh the gross baseness of this very superficial film of ordinary Neapolitan knavery.