Tyrone Power

Gene Tierney

Reginald Gardiner

Arleen Whelan

Lucile Watson

Gene Lockhart

Lloyd Gough

Porter Hall

Richard Gaines

Taylor Holmes

Chill Wills

Percy Helton

Robert McCord

Robert B. Sinclair

Jay Dratler

William R. Lipman

Frederick Stephani

Fred Kohlmar

Darryl F. Zanuck

Cyril J. Mockridge

Charles G. Clarke

Louis R. Loeffler

George W. Davis

Lyle R. Wheeler

Thomas Little

Walter M. Scott

Ben Nye

Romance

Comedy

That Wonderful Urge

20th Century Fox

United States of America

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There's nothing so dangerous as a woman on a mission of revenge, and that's what journalist "Tom" (Tyrone Power) discovers when his serialisation of the profligate life of heiress "Sara" (Gene Tierney) in the newspaper earns her enmity. She's a clever woman, and so manages to come up with an unique way of visiting her vengeance on her new prey. She decides to tell the world that they are married! That's just one truth too many for his editor so now out of a job and without many friends, he has to get her to address the situation before he sinks without trace. How, though? She's still pretty livid and no shrinking violet. Of course, the underplay here is all pretty obvious, as is a denouement helped along amiably by Gene Lockhart, but it's really the enjoyable tit-for-tat banter between Power and Tierney that keeps this entertaining battle of the sexes moving along quickly and sometimes quite wittily. It's probably not a film you will recall for long afterwards, but it does it's job fine for eighty minutes.

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