Two Heads on a Pillow (DVD)

Lawyer Jack Smith divorces his spitfire wife Evelyn after only one month of marriage. Years later, Jack is shocked to find that not only has Evelyn passed the bar, but that the former husband and wife are now opposing each other in a divorce case. The two attorneys find themselves working together to reconcile their clients, while at the same time discovering that their own separation may have been premature.

Often cited as the inspiration for the Spencer Tracy-Katherine Hepburn vehicle Adam's Rib, Two Heads on a Pillow was produced by short-lived Poverty Row studio Liberty Pictures. During their eight years of operation they released Hopalong Cassidy westerns such as Cheaters (1934) and screwball comedies like Dizzy Dames (1935). Two Heads on a Pillow also boasts a story from Dorothy Canfield Fisher, a social reformer and activist who at the time was named as one of the ten most influential women in the United States by Eleanor Roosevelt. Handsome lead actor Neil Hamilton had a long career in Hollywood, rising to fame after his role in The White Rose (1923). He will always be best remembered as Commissioner Gordon on the hit TV series Batman.

• comedy