Radio review – SDP – “Mr and Mrs Smith” (1949) **

It seems to be generally agreed that the best thing about the only pure comedy Hitchcock made in Hollywood was Carole Lombard. This radio version doesn’t have Lombard, owing to her death, but Robert Montgomery returns – not that that’s going to make you sing from the heavens. Kathryn Crosby steps into Lombard’s shoes – she tries but she can’t lift the weak material. Norman Krasna was one of the best rom com screen writers in Hollywood but this was one of his lesser works. Hitchcock himself chats at the end.