More of William Powell in Love Crazy

(I need it after getting my heart broken into a million pieces last night by In the Mood for Love.)

My review of Love Crazy (and other “marriage comedies”) here.

Powell is hiding in the shower of his now-married ex-girlfriend (played awesomely by Gail Patrick). They are NOT guilty of infidelity but it would look very bad if he were found there. He is also escaped from a lunatic asylum and the police are after him. The ex-girlfriend’s husband is going to take a shower, and the ex-girlfriend stalls him. They stand there, right outside the shower, talking about how he shouldn’t take a shower right now. The husband is baffled. What is her problem? The fact that we know William Powell is right behind the curtain makes the scene hilarious. Without looking into the shower, the husband reaches in and turns on the water. The look on Gail Patrick’s face, knowing what Powell is going through at that moment, is laugh-out-loud funny. The husband mutters how he likes the water to be “scalding”, so he reaches in again and turns the knob. Steam blasts out of the shower, and poor William Powell is bombarded by scalding hot water, and he cannot scream, or make a sound. Tears streamed down my face as I watched him writhe, his mouth jammed open in a silent prolonged shriek, like Edvard Munch’s painting.

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3 Responses to More of William Powell in Love Crazy

  1. nightfly says:

    I wonder if he actually turned the tap on super COLD, as a gag. You have to know your target very well for something like that!

  2. red says:

    I’m sure for the comfort of the actor it was a mild temperature. They’re not gonna scald or freeze William Powell. The steam is an effect, obviously.

  3. red says:

    Funniest part, though, is when he escapes from the shower and sneaks out back through the apartment with Gail Patrick – steam emanates off his soaking body for the ENTIRETY of the scene.

    God, this movie is so funny!!!

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