Aspiring playwright jumping from job to job falls for admiral's daughter.Aspiring playwright jumping from job to job falls for admiral's daughter.Aspiring playwright jumping from job to job falls for admiral's daughter.
Robert Adair
- Boat Passenger
- (uncredited)
Wilson Benge
- Butler
- (uncredited)
Buck Bucko
- Cowboy
- (uncredited)
William Burress
- Jan Coetzee
- (uncredited)
Tyrell Davis
- Boat Passenger
- (uncredited)
Kenne Duncan
- Cowboy
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Robert Z. Leonard(uncredited)
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaActor Reginald Denny is seen as a photograph of 'Jimmy' on a nightstand, but in the film itself, Reginald Owen plays the role.
- GoofsMary says she's taking a walk into town and Jeff asks her to get him some cigarettes. At the smoke shop she meets Willie, who later asks her to meet him after work where he goes fishing. She drives to meet him, and when it gets late she says it will take her an hour to get home. But Willie has walked from town to the pond... and she had walked from home to town.
- SoundtracksAuld Lang Syne
(uncredited)
Traditional Scottish 17th century music
[Played by a band as the ship leaves for England]
Featured review
A smart, witty script lovingly performed and delivered in this precode love letter to youth's passions
Other internet sources state this is a rare direct-to-screen original by Frederick Lonsdale, the playwright responsible for such drawing-room comedies as THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY and like the two versions of that film (1929 & 1937), this one bubbles and sparkles with great lines. From Robert Montgomery's first scene, he delivers clever observations with the clipped wit of an intelligent philosopher filled with the wonder of discovering something better in life. Lots of short funny scenes as he wanders the globe drifting from job to job, gathering experiences to enrich his writing. Lovely Madge Evans (better known for DINNER AT EIGHT & David COPPERFIELD) plays the pretty and pampered daughter of a high society stalwart member, an admiral with plans for her to marry "well." Fate introduces these two idealistic lovers in a lowly tobacconist shop and their perceptive exchange quickly shoots arrows through their hearts. They are fated to love forever before the scene ends. Starting with humor, gracefully slipping into romance, spiking with the passions of obsessive love, dipping down into harsh realities only to be tried and tested
the ending comes as only a playwrights guilty pleasure could imagine.
Bottom line, I loved it and fans of smart precode love stories will relish in this forgotten little gem! 8 out of 10!
Bottom line, I loved it and fans of smart precode love stories will relish in this forgotten little gem! 8 out of 10!
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- Jan 21, 2006
Details
- Runtime1 hour 17 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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