Quick Reviews: Four's a Crowd (1938), It's Love I'm After (1937)

"FOUR'S A CROWD" (1938)
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A game, talented cast gets to stretch their comedic legs for middling, sub-par material in Michael Curtiz's Four's a Crowd, a true madcap screwball comedy that's more madcap than comedy. 
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Rosalind Russell's furiously committed reporter woman and Errol Flynn's public relations man steal the show, but too often the film doesn't trust its cast enough, as evidenced by a goofy, misguided recurring joke involving a pack of guard dogs. [C+]
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"IT'S LOVE I'M AFTER" (1937)
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Leslie Howard and Bette Davis play bickering, lovelorn stage actors in this performance satire and screwball comedy that's equal parts brilliant and garish. 
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Olivia de Havilland, as the starstruck heiress, is an adorable fury of gushing youthful lust as she fawns over the classy, self-possessed Basil Underwood (Howard). Film takes a turn towards the predictable in the final reels (and may take too long to get there), but it's overall effect is slightly more canny than daft. [B]