Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948 123movies

Watch: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948 123movies, Full Movie Online – The Blandings live in New York in a tiny apartment. They decide to move to the country and find that buying and building and living in their own home is easier said than done..
Plot: An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
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	7.2/10 Votes: 11,859
	85% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 150 Popularity: 6.805 | TMDB

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This is a simple comedy about a family living in downtown Manhattan who decide to relocate to a delightful old house in loads of acres in rural Maine. Problem is, they buy a house that the wind could blow down and soon enough are on a roller-coaster ride building a new home whilst being simultaneously fleeced by just about everyone. Cary Grant is great; his dialogue is frequently pithy and the on-screen rapport between him and Myrna Loy is effective and understated – even when he starts to believe that she might be up to some shenanigans with their lawyer – Melvyn Douglas – who delivers his role in a magnificently aloof “what are you all doing?” sort of fashion. Add to the mix, the pressure Grant is under to come up with a new slogan for his 1940’s equivalent of “Spam” and we have a gentle mixture of screwball fun and games that cannot fail to raise a smile…

If you really like black and white comedies from the 30s and 40s — well, you have probably seen this one! I know I did many (many) years ago, but I recently had a chance to watch it again. It was worth the time. It features Cary Grant and Myrna Loy doing what they do best. He is a wisecracking husband and father who seems smart at times, but slightly daft at other times. He loves his wife and kids, but gives them a hard time when things go the wrong way. But not in a modern hurtful way. Myrna I remember easily from the Thin Man films and she is a natural at this. She deadpans a lot of her lines, but check out her facial expressions. She accomplishes a lot without seeming to try. Some of the situations are predictable, but often I found myself laughing even when I had a good idea what was coming. It is very well-written. This is no blockbuster, but it is sweet, harmless fun, and sometimes that is just what I need.

Required viewing for anybody considering building their own house…
…because in many ways nothing has changed. If you can’t live through what Mr. Blandings lives through in this film, don’t do it! There at millions of already built homes in the United States! Pick one! Jim (Cary Grant) and Muriel (Myrna Loy) Blandings live in a Manhattan apartment with their two daughters and Jim is an advertising executive. So Jim and Muriel think it would be nice to live in the country on a big lot and buy – not sight unseen so much as site uninspected by professionals – a house in Connecticut that has been standing since the Continental Congress.

Unfortunately, every engineer who inspects it says it is a wonder of the modern world that it has not fallen down on its own, but of course it is not going to do that and make the Blandings’ life easy, so they have pay to have it knocked down. Then they find out about an obscure law about knocking down a house that has a mortgage on it and have to pay 6000 dollars. And they haven’t even gotten around to BUILDING the house they want! From the windowless bedroom, the logistics problems of getting to and from work – Mrs. Blandings read the train schedule wrong, getting trapped in the upstairs closet, to being forced to move before the house is ready – as in not having windows – this thing is hilarious on so many levels.

Jim Blandings’ panic grows with the mounting bills, the misunderstandings that cost him thousands, and the ad campaign he must come up with to keep his job and have a chance at ever paying for any of this. Plus the stress has him imagining that his wife and attorney/friend (Melvyn Douglas as Bill Cole) are in love. They did go steady for a time during college, but that was it.

Now don’t think that this is anything but a comedy. Plus I have never seen anybody who can play straight man to his own comedian as well as Cary Grant. Myrna Loy is sublime as the wife, completely unruffled by any of this, not a hair out of place. And she delivers the one liners as well as when she was Nora Charles. Melvyn Douglas is great as the friend and lends great deadpan comic support to the whole proceeding. Highly recommended.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min), 1 hr 40 min (100 min) (West Germany)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director H.C. Potter
Writer Eric Hodgins, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Actors Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,584 m (Netherlands)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm