Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Very well executed

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

"The Bride Came C.O.D" is sustained by the performances of James Cagney and Bette Davis, who both manage to overcome a weak screenplay. Both actors manage to demonstrate a talent for light comedy. The laughs aren't exactly plentiful but at least the film isn't depressing or melancholic. Cagney and Davis have brilliant on- screen chemistry and they should have been paired up more often and in better movies. Davis is a rich socialite who is about to marry a famous and rather pompous musician - Jack Carson. They are about to fly to another state so they can be married in secret. Her father doesn't particularly care for the planned marriage and wants to stop it. Cagney as a pilot, is employed to keep Davis from tying the knot but things don't exactly go according to plan! The scenes of Cagney and Davis alone in the desert and then spotting a seemingly deserted town are probably the best in the film. Although the film isn't a very long one, it outstays its welcome about 20 minutes before the end. A lot of the film is tiresome and the comedy "Torrid Zone" is much better (also with James Cagney).

Enjoyable screwball comedy with Bette Davis and James Cagney, helped out by a great supporting cast that includes Eugene Palette, Jack Carson, George Tobias, William Frawley, Harry Davenport, and many others. WB movies back in the day were more often than not defined by their supporting players. They had a premium stable of actors to choose from and many times they're more enjoyable to watch than the leads.Davis has a lot of fun with this role and, while her comedic talents were always so-so, she shines here. This is also one of the movies where she looks prettiest and curviest. One dress in particular fits her just right.The movie isn't perfect. It drags a bit more than a screwball comedy should. Davis and Cagney, while having nice comedic timing, don't really have much romantic chemistry. So the inevitable conclusion to a film like this might be a bit hard for some to buy. Still, I recommend it to any Bette Davis or James Cagney fan. Also to any fan of WB films from the 1930s and 40s.

It's more than possible that when this movie was released it got lost in the shuffle simply because there was so much more of the same - screwball comedy - out there, most of it with old hands, Grant, Lombard, etc, who had polished the genre to within an inch of its life. But seen today when polish is thin on the ground and Real stars have given way to ersatz it comes across as a minor gem. The Epstein twins concocted a soufflé from leftovers of It Happened One Night, added a touch of spin and voila; take one madcap heiress bent on marrying the wrong man, add one charter pilot about to lose his plane, strike a deal for the pilot to kidnap said heiress and return her to poppa in return for cash in hand. Have the plane come down by a ghost town and leave them to let nature take its course. Bouquets all round.

This film was a big disappointment.I take the opposite view of the critics. This is not a case of the material not being up to the level of the actors; here the actors (Bette Davis and James Cagney) are simply not up to the level of the material. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert were every bit as big as Davis and Cagney, and look how It Happened One Night turned out - an all-time classic. With a very similar story, Davis proves that she has no talent for comedy (good thing for her that this is just about the only comedy she ever attempted!) Davis' one-note performance oozes petulance, but none of the nuances of Colbert's acting in It Happened One Night. Cagney, who was a great comedy actor, just seems out-of-sync with his costar, Davis. The script provides some decent lines and gags, but the delivery seems better suited to drama than comedy.Part of the problem is the soundtrack, which, like the delivery of Davis and Cagney, seems more suitable to a light drama than a comedy.Jack Carson, who played similar roles throughout his career, has more capably handled very similar material. In a fairly typical supporting role Eugene Palette delivers a respectable performance. In a slightly different role as an old west relic, Harry Davenport, is very good. But in one of his poorest performances, William Frawley is quite irritating. His character's constant references to fictional cops are a poor effort at irony. I really love every one of these performers, and it is a shame that, as an ensemble they achieve no more chemistry and no better result than The Bride Came C.O.D.