A woman locks her daughter up to prevent her from marrying her sweetheart until the sweetheart's father first marries the mother. Step-sibling marriage is the least of the ensuing complications.

Is this actually worth the time? Look, if you have a soft spot for the kind of frantic, door-slamming comedy that was all the rage in the early 30s, you might get a kick out of Love and Hisses. It moves fast, nobody really talks like a human being, and the whole premise is based on a level of stubbornness that would be...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

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"Is this actually worth the time? Look, if you have a soft spot for the kind of frantic, door-slamming comedy that was all the rage in the early 30s, you might get a kick out of Love and Hisses. It moves fast, nobody really talks like a human being, and the whole premise is based on a level of stubbornness that would be deeply annoying in real life. If you hate movies where the entire plot could be solved by just, I don't know, talking to each other for five minutes, you should probably skip this..."
Ben Holmes
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