Double Harness

1933
Approved
1 Std. 9 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

IHRE BEWERTUNG

William Powell and Ann Harding in Double Harness (1933)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.A woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.A woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.

Regie
- John Cromwell
Drehbuch
- Jane Murfin
- Edward Poor Montgomery
Hauptbesetzung

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,7/10

1317

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- John Cromwell
Drehbuch
- Jane Murfin
- Edward Poor Montgomery
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Wissenswertes
This film hadn't been shown for decades and was found in a Merian C. Cooper collection that had been used for television. A 2½-minute sequence that had been cut from the print was located in a French negative discovered in the National Center for Cinematography in France and restored to the print. The brief segment had been cut for television because it indicated that the characters of Joan Colby and John Fletcher were having pre-marital sex.

Patzer
Lilian Bond's character "Monica Paige" has name misspelled in newspaper headline and caption "Mrs. Monica Page Returns".

Zitate
Valerie Colby: But how can you even think of marrying him if you don't love him?
Joan Colby: Love? Marriage has nothing to do with love. Marriage is a business - at least, it's a woman's business. And love is an emotion. A man doesn't let emotion interfere with *his* business, and if more women would learn not to let emotion interfere with *theirs*, fewer of them would end up in the divorce court.

Verbindungen
Featured in TCM: Twenty Classic Moments (2014)

Soundtracks
Bridal Chorus
(uncredited)
from "Lohengrin"
Composed by Richard Wagner
[Played in the opening scene at the dress boutique]

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The story was okay...

"He always has a drink," said my wife. She was speaking, of course, of William Powell's various characters, and I observed that he was always wealthy. Was he typecast? That is a question for seventy-years-ago; today, we just enjoy his work.

And it starred William Powell. (Isn't that enough?) In DOUBLE HARNESS, Powell plays John Fletcher, a playboy millionaire who is targeted for marriage by Joan Colby (Ann Harding). She gets her man, and this turns out to be to his immediate benefit. She gets him interested in running the company he inherited, and with her help, he's quite successful at it. He's a savvy guy, but she's clearly the woman behind the successful man. (Yes, such a thing still exists, some seventy years after.) Joan's sister Valerie (Lucille Browne) is something of a ditz with spending proclivities beyond her means. This leads to a disaster of a sort, but it's nothing Joan cannot handle.

The ending, which I shan't divulge, left me with a few questions, but the answers were not necessary and I was pleased with the film. William Powell fans, you don't want to miss the master at work.