Post by rmichaelpyle on May 27, 2009 4:43:00 GMT -6
This one's evidently been hiding in the rafters: last night I watched "Disgraced!" (1933) with Helen Twelvetrees, Bruce Cabot, Adrienne Ames, William Harrigan, and Ken Murray. This is one great pre-code! It has everything, but the really amazing thing about it is that it never lets you know what's coming next, and when something comes next it's NOT what you expected! I was very surprised by several turns of events in this one. I'm not going to give away the plot except to say that Bruce Cabot turns in about the best performance of his career, and he's the guy you'll start out loving and by the end you'll hate him, but that's not all... The end itself is NOT an end, and that's even more disturbing, and this film will not leave you satisfied at all. That is its intention, though, and it certainly gets its point across. Where has this been hiding?? Why in the world couldn't this great Paramount release have been on the Pre-Codes release of recent months instead of some of those other duds? If you see this available, find a way to watch it. You won't be disappointed. Oh, two other final things: (1) All the way through this Helen Twelvetrees will remind any viewer of 30's films of Una Merkel. She looks so much like her at times as to be her! (2) The beautiful, beautiful actress Adrienne Ames is so stunning in this as to make me wonder why her career didn't go farther than it did. I've never seen her looking any better than here...
