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4 May 1930 (USA)
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Whirling away with Romance! (original ad) more
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Mary Fairchild elopes with Dick Mercer and it doesn't take long for Mary to realize she has made a mistake...
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The Bride Should'a Kept Runnin'!!
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(Complete credited cast) | Mary Astor | ... | Mary Gray, AKA Sally Fairchild |
| Lloyd Hughes | ... | George Edward Blaine |
| Paul Hurst | ... | Sergeant Daly |
| David Newell | ... | Richard 'Dick' Mercer |
| Natalie Moorhead | ... | Clara Muldoon |
| Edgar Norton | ... | Williams, Blaine's Butler |
| Francis McDonald | ... | Barney Black |
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69 min
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1.20 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Photophone System)
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
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Loveable And Sweet
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I didn't see this film from the beginning. If you miss the first few minutes of most films of this vintage, you're lost from then on. This film is worth watching, not because it is a good film or has a good cast. The only one worth seeing here is Mary Astor, and she's a far cry from her Brigid O'Shaugnessey days still to come. This film is worth watching from a filmmakers' vantage point. The plots and characters are virtually negligible. However, Leo Tover's expressionistic photography and angles are exceptional for the period. There are lots of dark images a la Welles ( though still a few years prior to his appearance). The images are silhouetted in this pre-Citizen Kane vehicle, and there is even an early attempt at 'deep focus', which was said to be fathered by Toland, but Tover stops just short of deep focus 1930 in several scenes. The situations are somewhat steamy...there's one scene where the villains are looking for loot that's worth $80,000. Astor has to stand for an off screen frisk at the hands of these desperate men, and the result also suggests that the frisk is full of sex, with the moans and groans and Astor's pleadings off screen suggesting that which cannot be judged otherwise. Not a thrilling movie, nor necessarily a great watch. But viewing can give you insights into where movies were headed as of 1930. Artistically, not a great watch; technologically a worthwhile and informative watch.