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Unfinished Business (1941)

“… a bitterly passionate romantic drama with a relentless comic tone.” – New Yorker

Directed by Gregory La Cava

Carole Lombard was originally supposed to star in this oddball, screwball comedy that eventually went to Irene Dunne who owns the role of Nancy, a small-town woman with a serious case of wanderlust.  Declaring, ”I want to keep going until there are no horizons left,” she sets off to New York but her free-wheeling plans are immediately derailed by a one-night stand on the train into Grand Central Station. 

Universal Pictures Company, Inc. Screenwriter: Eugene Thackrey.  Cinematographer: Joseph Valentine.  Editor: Russell Schoengarth.  Cast: Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster, Eugene Pallette, Esther Dale.

35mm, b/w, 96 min.