Only a Husband

A sophisticated deconstruction of Jazz Age domesticity, 'Only a Husband' serves as a kinetically charged exploration of the matrimonial quagmire. Scripted by the legendary Jean C. Havez, the narrative eschews the grandiosity of epic cinema for the claustrophobic, albeit hilarious, confines of suburban friction. Marion Mack, predating her iconic turn in 'The General', delivers a performance of nuanced exasperation, navigating a series of escalating domestic calamities that transform the mundane household into a theater of the absurd. The film functions as a rhythmic pantomime where the architecture of the home itself—doors, hallways, and breakfast tables—becomes an antagonist. It is a cynical yet playful interrogation of the 'happily ever after' trope, rendering the husband’s plight as a Sisyphean struggle against the trivialities of modern life, choreographed with the precision of a Swiss timepiece and the anarchic spirit of the early slapstick masters.