A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
Despite censorship and unusual casting the is still an amazingly open-minded and entertaining ménage à trois comedy, made with Ernst Lubitsch's sure hand for such material.
Halliwell**: "Elegant but miscast version of a scintillating play, with all the sex and the sting removed (at the insistence of the Legion of Decency, then coming into power). Ben Hecht claimed to have removed all but one line of Coward's dialogue: 'For the good of our immortal souls!'"
Maltin***: "Most of the witty innuendos are left intact (even if the pacing isn't quite right)."
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