MOVIE REVIEW

The Shop Around the Corner / 1940

EVERY GIRL OR FELLOW WHO EVER KEPT A “BLIND DATE”

8.1 / 10 (829 votes)

99 minutes

DIRECTOR Ernst Lubitsch

WRITERS Samson Raphaelson

CAST Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, William Tracy, Inez Courtney, Sarah Edwards, Edwin Maxwell, Charles Halton, Charles Smith, Charles Arnt, Joan Blair, Mary Carr

PRODUCTION Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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REVIEW & SYNOPSIS

Sinopsis

The Shop Around the Corner adalah sebuah Comedy, Drama, Romance yang dirilis pada tahun 1940. “EVERY GIRL OR FELLOW WHO EVER KEPT A “BLIND DATE”” Film ini disutradarai oleh Ernst Lubitsch dan dibintangi oleh Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden.

The Shop Around the Corner menghadirkan cerita yang mendalam tentang perjuangan, konflik, dan resolusi yang memukau. Dengan alur yang terstruktur dengan baik, film ini berhasil membawa penonton dalam pengalaman sinematik yang tak terlupakan.

Dari segi teknis, The Shop Around the Corner menawarkan sinematografi yang memanjakan mata, tata suara yang imersif, serta akting yang meyakinkan dari para pemerannya.

Secara keseluruhan, The Shop Around the Corner adalah Comedy yang layak masuk dalam daftar tontonan Anda. Film ini tidak hanya menghibur tetapi juga memberikan pesan moral yang mendalam.

Last Updated: April 29, 2026

COMMUNITY REVIEWS FROM TMDB

John Chard 9/10

December 28, 2019

Ah, epistolary love, delightful. This is the story of Matuschek and Company - - of Mr. Matuschek and the people who work for him. It is just around the corner from Andrassy Street - - on Balta Street, in Budapest, Hungary. Klara Novak seeks work at Hugo Matuschek's Budapest store, after initially being turned down by head clerk Alfred Kralik, she gains employment after impressing the originally gruff Matuschek himself. This annoys Alfred and both he and Klara take an instant dislike to each other, completely unaware that they are I fact both each others lonely hearts pen pal. Boy...

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CinemaSerf 8/10

June 23, 2022

Frank Morgan is super in this delightful comedy drama. His general goods store finds itself with a new employee in "Klara" (Margaret Sullavan) who has loads of new techniques and a style that manages to irk long time supervisor "Kralik" (James Stewart). What we know from early on is that both are engaged, enthusiastically, in a pen-pal relationship unaware of the true identities of each other - and their antics as the first meeting looms ever closer make for highly entertaining stuff to watch. Things take a bit of a downturn when, suddenly, "Kralik" falls a little foul of his...

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