No Time for Love (1943)

Directed by

Mitchell Leisen

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A sophisticated female photographer is assigned to photograph tough tunnel construction workers. After saving one of them from an accident, she becomes attracted to him and hires him as her assistant, hoping the attraction will fade. Instead she falls in love and must overcome her own pride.

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What happens

No Time for Love is a 1943 American screwball comedy film produced and directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. Written by Claude Binyon, Robert Lees, and Frederic I. Rinaldo, the film is about a sophisticated female photographer assigned to photograph the tough "sandhog" construction workers at a tunnel project site. After saving one of the sandhogs from a fatal accident, she becomes attracted to this cocky well-built man they call Superman. Unsettled by her feelings, she hires the man as her assistant, believing that her attraction to him will diminish if she spends time with him. Their time together, however, leads to feelings of love, and she struggles to overcome her haughtiness and make her true feelings known. No Time for Love was the fourth of seven films starring Colbert and MacMurray, both of whom had previously worked with director Mitchell Leisen. The film was shot at Paramount Studios from June 8 to July 24, 1942. A special set was constructed for the tunnel scenes, based on blueprints for the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel. A special mix of adobe and water was used to produce the mud in the climactic scenes. No Time for Love was released by Paramount Pictures on November 10, 1943, in New York City. The film received good reviews in Variety and the New York Times, whose reviewer called it a "delightful comedy" and "a thoroughly ingratiating film". The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction–Interior Decoration, Black-and-White (Hans Dreier, Robert Usher, Samuel M. Comer). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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