Producer/director Leo McCarey""s stylish light comedy is a witty battlefield of marital misadventures, mismatches and snappy dialogue, with physical scenes of slapstick, spontaneous and improvised acting, and hilarious romantic antagonism between its two stars - Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.Nemerov told Cabot that he wished to deliver a message to the US President about Russian-Chechnyan affairs: "Chechnya is an internal affair.In a recording, Dressler described his evil motivations, as the crate was transported by Mason from the Baltimore docks to the city""s sports stadium, where it was installed and disguised as a cigarette vending machine in the parking garage: "Most people believe the 20th century was defined by the death struggle of communism versus capitalism, and that fascism was but a hiccup." They are greeted with "Morning, neighbors, morning." The stationmaster goes about unloading freight and soon confounds them by abruptly answering each of their questions quite literally:Cedar: Do you know a fellow by the name of Longfellow Deeds?Stationmaster: Deeds?.]The emotionally-intense psycho-drama also hinted at he real-life troubles and problems (five marriages) in the career of its female star - a victim of the Hollywood studio system - during he film""s making.