I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

On balance I've stumbled across more good films from the thirties and forties which I'd never heard of than bad. Alas, this isn't one of them. For example, on the same day, in the same shop, I found In Name Only, a Cary Grant-Carole Lomard-Kay Francis entry from the same year as this, which was truly fine. When I saw that the screenplay here was by Ben Hech and Herman Manckiewicz and based on a story by Mank, with Woody Van Dyke at the helm I figured it was in the satchel. Boy, did I get a wrong number. With five years having elapsed since It Happened One Night Mank probably figured it was ripe for recycling and so long as he switched Gable's newspaperman for Colbert's poet nobody would suss. Turns out what we get is It Happened One Night manque. Ah well, those are the breaks.

I am with the critical reviewers here -- this doesn't have the right feel. We are all so accustomed to seeing Jimmy Stewart as a wonderful actor, but in this, his role doesn't work. The fault lies either with the screenwriter or with Stewart himself, but for a screwball comedy to work, the lead characters have to have a kind of happy zest, a playfulness, even if it is underneath some more obvious motive like getting money or getting one-up on someone who's put you down, and his character just doesn't have it. Claudette Colbert, by contrast, is wonderful -- just what is needed. The plot, the setting, the other characters, all are excellent for screwball comedy. The problem is Jimmy Stewart -- earnest, annoyed with just about everyone, and no hint of playfulness.

James Stewart tries his hand at screwball comedy in "It's a Wonderful World," a 1939 film also starring Claudette Colbert, directed by W.S. Van Dyke with a screenplay by Ben Hecht. Supporting players include Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton, Sidney Blackmer, and Ernest Truex.Stewart plays a detective, Guy Johnson, whose client (Truex) is charged with a murder he didn't commit. Guy is sentenced to prison, too, as an accessory. On the way to prison via train, he spots a clue in the newspaper and escapes. On the run, he encounters a poetess, Edwina Corday (Colbert), an attractive if clumsy woman, and he has to take her along. The two get into all sorts of trouble on the road to trying to prove Guy's client didn't murder anyone.This film has all the elements of a great screwball comedy, and a lot of potential, but for some reason, it doesn't quite hang together. The script is a little confusing and lets the actors down. It's reminiscent of "It Happened One Night," especially when they're hanging out by the fence, and Colbert's presence indicates to me that the powers that be had that connection in mind.The performances are all excellent, with Stewart and Colbert very funny. It seems that both these actors could do just about anything. With a little bit tighter script, this might have been a real classic. As it is, it's enjoyable and has some good moments.

Was IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD hurt by the fact that it is difficult for me to imagine Jimmy Stewart as a hardball character, even a chauvinist, or was it helped by the fact that this movie would have been nothing without him? Granted, Claudette Colbert plays the poet, the hopelessly romantic dreamer, well, and that plays off Stewart's greed-driven detective splendidly.The detective, crime-solving part of the film is well done within its confines, Edgar Kennedy and Nat Pendleton are cast well as the rather slow-witted police. If this 1939 film had been made two and a half decades earlier, they would have fallen over each other, broken things, and caused ultraviolence in a Mack Sennett sort of way.) Guy Kibbee is, of course, perfect as the Stewart's partner. I will not spoil the ending, but I can say that as with all well-written screwball comedies, the film has a delightful way of meandering through situations and reaching a conclusion which satisfies.I don't know if this will help, but before viewing, I had to promise my wife that it was not that Christmas movie.