James Stewart stars as Alfred, an "insignificant little clerk" in this Ernst Lubitsch dramedy about two coworkers in Matuschek & Company, a shop in Budapest. As Christmas is coming, Stewart is carrying on a pen pal relationship with a woman he becomes more and more interested in. At the same time, a new co-worker arrives Klara (Margaret Sullivan) and they have a brother/sister antagonism.
As it turns out, it is they who are pen pals with each other, but they don't know that about each other. Remade in the 90s as
You've Got Mail, it's a classic screwball comedy of the day. Fine dialogue and funny gags reminded me of some of the Astaire/Rodgers movies of the time as well.
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