Her Favorite Husband is a curiosity in the career of elegant Italian director Mario Soldati, as his first English language film during an era when his country's industry was reaching out with foreign co-productions.Part of the awkwardness of the gangster comedy may be his uncertainty with the British crew and cast.
You know that a film has problems when the first scene is the funniest.After the confrontation between Rutherford and Harker on the one hand and the French custom officials on the other everything goes downhill.
Robert Kent (sporting a terribly fake Italian accent) is a henpecked bank clerk in Naples. He's married to Englishwoman Jean Kent, whose parents, Gordon Harker and Margaret Rutherford, are visiting for, seemingly, the sole purpose of abusing him.
Dorothy (Jean Kent) is married to a mousey bank teller (Robert Beatty) and leads a quiet life in Naples. Her parents (Margaret Rutherford, Gordon Harker) come for a visit and also dump on the henpeck, even taking over his bedroom and banishing him to the couch.
