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5.9/10 • 31

1931-08-131h 30m

RomanceDrama

VINA DELMAR'S novel of New York Life

A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.

Directors
Frank Borzage
Writters
Brian Marlow, Rudolf Sieber
Editors
Brian Marlow, Rudolf Sieber, Margaret Clancey

Top Billed Cast

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  1. James Dunn

    James Dunn

    Eddie Collins

  2. Sally Eilers

    Sally Eilers

    Dorothy Haley

  3. Minna Gombell

    Minna Gombell

    Edna Driggs

  4. Frank Darien

    Frank Darien

    Lathrop

  5. William Pawley

    William Pawley

    Jim Haley

  6. Claude King

    Claude King

    Dr. Burgess

  7. Louis Natheaux

    Louis Natheaux

    Mr. Thompson

  8. Sarah Padden

    Sarah Padden

    Mrs. Gardner

  9. Charles Sullivan

    Charles Sullivan

    Mike the Prizefighter

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CinemaSerf

May 4, 2024

7/10

I don't know that honesty is always the best policy, but I think that this melodrama might have gone much more smoothly for the married "Dorothy" (Sally Eilers) and "Eddie" (James Dunn) if they, especially the latter, had just been a little more upfront with the other. She basically thinks all men are predatory wastrels; he that women just want to shop their way trough life. Despite these obvious misgivings, and because he treats her with almost as much disinterest as she does him, the pair start to quite like each other. She's got a brother who is a controlling pain in the neck, so they come up with a plan to get her married so she's out of his ambit. Swiftly, with a baby looming, he loses his job and desperate times call for desperate measures - all against a tapestry of mistrust and scepticism! There are times when I just wanted to bang their heads together and I took that as a sign that they were all doing their jobs properly. Dunn delivers quite engagingly, especially as the film progresses and his character's inability to simply be honest and less priggish just worsens his problems. It takes a while to get going, but once the dynamic is laid out for us, then this is quite an amiably presented look at the stupidity of human nature and of the breadwinning custom and is well worth ninety minutes - though maybe not if you're headed to a maternity ward anytime soon.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$100,000.00
Revenue
$1,100,000.00
Keywords
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