This delightful comedy was Henry Fonda's 29th film in seven years - a hectic beginning to his screen career. Based on James Thurber and Elliott Nugent's Broadway success (and directed here by Nugent), it casts Fonda as the liberal, but slightly owlish English professor who faces dismissal if he has the temerity to read to his students a letter from a notorious anarchist. He also has to face the fact that beefy footballer Jack Carson is in town and once again taking an interest in Fonda's wife (Olivia de Havilland). Romance and satire are deftly intermingled in a complex plot which also involves Herbert Anderson as the editor of the college newspaper, Joan Leslie as de Havilland's younger sister and Don DeFore as a member of the football team. Vintage entertainment, which also has something to say, with Fonda giving one of his finest performances to date.


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