FOR PETE'S SAKE Directed by PETER YATES Screenplay by STANLEY SHAPIRO and MAURICE RICHLIN
The screwball comedy stubbornly refuses to be reborn. It flourished in the '30s and into the '40s, urged on by the talents of such as Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday) and Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve) and considerably abetted by the general delirium of the times. The format flourished under Sturges all during World War II but died out soon after the war ended.
Now that film makers are paying scrupulous attention to the old genres, and such formulas as the police thriller, the...
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