Designing Woman (1957)

A journalist and a fashion designer self-importantly narrate the first turbulent days of their impulsive marriage in this romantic comedy that benefits from the attractive pairing of Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall, but it is hard to care much about the lovebirds' first-world-problems which amount to them having too many friends for the social gatherings they host in their apartment, careers that are somehow incompatible (or is it just the people they are in contact with through their careers that are incompatible?), and some understandable misgivings they both have about the other's ex-partner.

★★★☆☆

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Witness For The Prosecution (1957)

Based on an Agatha Christie short story so clever she adapted it into a play so ingenious it was turned into a movie, this murder mystery starring Charles Laughton as a lawyer who takes on a murder case while convalescing is the sort of whodunnit you wish you could turn back time and discover for the first time again, but knowing the twists and turns of the plot is also a source of pleasure as is seeing everyone doing what they do so well, including Marlene Dietrich as a cool German singer and Tyrone Power as her husband and murder-accused.

★★★★★

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