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Post by diane on Feb 13, 2009 1:30:58 GMT -6
I just saw this excellent film. It stars Clive Brook in a story about
an ordinary street and its secrets. It has many stars (of 1932)
Frances Dee (completely beautiful and very under-rated as an
actress in my opinion) Gene Raymond, Lila Lee (a silent actress
who really made a lot of films in the early sound era) Charles
Ruggles and Mary Boland. Adrianne Allen, I thought was excellent.
She played Clive Brook's wife, who had been in a car accident and
became mentally ill. She had irrational fits of jealousy - she knew
she was being irrational but she was powerless to do anything about
it. That was how the climax of the film came about. I won't say what
it was but it tells all about it on the DVD case. I thought it was a very
interesting and multi layered story and everyone in the cast got their
chance to shine.
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Post by Midge on Feb 13, 2009 3:54:23 GMT -6
Thanks for the review, Diane. I've never heard of that one, but it sounds interesting. What a cast! I agree with you about Frances Dee. She was stunning, but she is barely remembered except as Joel McCrea's wife. I loved her as Meg in the 1933 Little Women.
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Post by rmichaelpyle on Feb 13, 2009 6:18:58 GMT -6
I've never seen that one, either. I'm looking for it, even as I write. Thanks for the review!
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Post by diane on Feb 13, 2009 14:12:34 GMT -6
I bought my copy from www.vintagefilmbuff.com. They have tons of pre-code films and a few silents. They seem to mostly Fox and Paramount (a few Nancy Carroll - so I'm not complaining!!!) I find their delivery very fast and they just seem a very nice bunch. Also with "Night of June 13th" - the writer was Vera Caspary - who later became famous as the writer of "Laura". Midge - have you ever seen "The Silver Cord" - Frances Dee was sensational in that . She plays a young wife who is driven to the brink by a monstrous mother in law!!! |
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Post by Midge on Feb 13, 2009 18:35:41 GMT -6
No, Diane, I haven't seen The Silver Cord but thanks for the recommendation.  |
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Post by rmichaelpyle on Feb 14, 2009 7:09:49 GMT -6
"Silver Cord" has a mother - Laura Hope Crews - who has this thing about her son that is slightly overwrought, even for pre-code days. It's a fine film, and Frances Dee is superbly beautiful in it, but there are moments when I want to hit the screen, get at the mother somehow, just to stop her comments.
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Post by Larry's 66 Diner on Feb 17, 2009 16:37:24 GMT -6
Silver Cord sounds like a film I wouldn't mind seeing. Your description puts me in the mind of the wicked ... er ... "holy" ... grandmother in Flowers in the Attic. 
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Post by diane on Feb 18, 2009 15:11:34 GMT -6
It certainly is a very confronting movie and Laura Hope Crewes is just magnificently monstrous.
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Post by Midge on Feb 18, 2009 19:01:46 GMT -6
It certainly is a very confronting movie and Laura Hope Crewes is just magnificently monstrous. She was also memorable as Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. |
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Post by Larry's 66 Diner on Feb 19, 2009 5:12:32 GMT -6
It certainly is a very confronting movie and Laura Hope Crewes is just magnificently monstrous. She was also memorable as Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. That's quite a contrast in types of characters, now isn't it? |
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Post by Midge on Feb 19, 2009 16:53:17 GMT -6
That's quite a contrast in types of characters, now isn't it? No kidding! I am having a very tough time picturing Aunt Pittypat as a villain. |
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