Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Overrated and overhyped

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I don't know why The Grass is Greener isn't a go-to classic comedy, like Some Like it Hot or It Happened One Night. It's darling! Based off the play by Hugh Williams and Margaret Vyner, it's hilarious, witty, charming, and endearing.Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr are married and stuck in a minor rut. When Deborah meets an American tourist, their attraction is undeniable. Yes, I know, she has Cary Grant at home, so perhaps Robert Mitchum is the only man Hollywood could have cast to make her infidelity believable! Before long, Deb and Bob are having a hot-and-heavy affair, and to help him deal with the problem, Cary recruits the advice of his faithful butler Moray Watson and his flirtatious friend Jean Simmons.Every part of this movie is cute, even the song during the opening credits and Hardy Amies's beautiful costumes. The script is very funny, with a mixture of jokes, wry one-liners, and situational comedy. I'm not even a Deborah Kerr fan, but she's just as delightful in this movie as her three co-stars.Remember the split-screen scene in When Harry Met Sally when the four friends are on the phone? That scene was a re-make; the hilarious original can be found in The Grass is Greener. I highly recommend this cute comedy. After you watch it, maybe you'll adopt the phrase, "So I went to Harrods and bought a sponge!" in your household, as I have in mine.

Victor (Cary Grant) and Hillary Rhyall (Deborah Kerr) are a struggling British earl and wife who needs money for their vast estates. They open it up to tourists. Charles Delacro (Robert Mitchum) is a wealthy oil tycoon visitor who takes a liking to Hillary. They start going off together. Hattie Durant (Jean Simmons) is her talkative best friend. Victor and Hattie schemes up a get together.The tone is a little too light. It's hard to get into the infidelity seriously. There is a mismatch of style. It would work better if we could somehow laugh at Cary Grant's character. He's mister nice guy and I don't really get the humor in the cheating. It probably would work better as a serious drama, but I just don't know why any of this would be funny.

Had I gone to see this film in 1960 (when I was 14), I would have felt cheated, it was so boring, wordy and lacking action that I could hardly wait for its end.All I saw was a bunch of actors - Grant, Kerr, Mitchum & Simmons (who were in the autumn of their screen careers), mainly sitting around doing nothing in particular, making small talk endlessly about marriage, fidelity and this and that.Even for 1960 the screenplay seemed very dated and contrived while the actors drank copious quantities of liquor and alcohol.None of the characters seemed to have a useful job or do some service to society so I suspected this was the influence of the idle rich from the 1930s, but since then there had been a world war, penal taxation to help repay Britain's war debt, the need for women to do a job of work and a social revolution in Britain with the new wave of films like "Look back in Anger"; this film seemed curiously dated even for 1960.What an advert for the perils of drink and dipsomania!I noticed that the majority of the USA based user comments seemed in favour of this film while European comments were more critical.I have seen many films when each of the above actors starred individually in more worthy films but I am afraid that here too many cooks spoilt the broth.I voted it 4/10.

Being a huge Deborah Kerr fan and a minor Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons fan I looked very much forward to watching this movie. My expectations were not disappointed! I had a lot of fun! The great dialogs as well as the actors managed to crack me up several times. Cary Grant is perfect typecasting. He has to deal with his beloved wife's infidelity. Mitchum and Kerr are rather unusual compared to their previous roles. He is very charming and straight-forward. When he sees something he wants, he takes it. She is truly funny! They have a great chemistry and you can tell that they were good friends in real life. But pay also special attention to Jean Simmons as the gin-drinking, all-knowing Hattie. She is hilarious! All together , the movie is great fun! Very British and very 50s/60s!