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Director:
Dorothy Arzner
Writers:
Gilbert Frankau (novel)
Zoe Akins (screenplay)
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Release Date:
31 March 1933 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
Higher and higher! Faster and faster! She gave herself to the great god Speed, and tried to run away from the fires within her! more
Plot:
A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
Title Should Have Been Cynthia Darrington more

Cast

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Katharine Hepburn ... Lady Cynthia Darrington
Colin Clive ... Sir Christopher Strong

Billie Burke ... Lady Elaine Strong
Helen Chandler ... Monica Strong
Ralph Forbes ... Harry Rawlinson
Irene Browne ... Carrie Valentine
Jack La Rue ... Carlo
Desmond Roberts ... Bryce Mercer
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Additional Details

Runtime:
78 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Photophone System)
Certification:
Australia:PG | USA:Approved (PCA #1544-R)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Newsreel footage of parades and famous flights were used in the movie. more
Quotes:
Lady Cynthia Darrington: I wouldn't have loved you if you'd been a usual man. And you wouldn't have loved me if I'd been a woman who didn't take this kind of thing seriously. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Women Who Made the Movies (1992) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Nearer My God To Thee more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Title Should Have Been Cynthia Darrington, 7 May 2007
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

I'm not quite sure why the title of this film is not Lady Cynthia Darrington since the film rises and falls on the action of Hepburn's character and not on Colin Clive's title role of Christopher Strong.

Clive is a most proper member of Parliament, probably a Tory, who through a treasure hunt, a la My Man Godfrey, he meets Hepburn who is a young titled woman who has an interest in aviation. In fact she's the British version of Amelia Earhart.

Clive and wife Billie Burke have a daughter, Helen Chandler, who is something of a wild child. She's having an affair with the unhappily married Ralph Forbes. But before long it's Clive and Hepburn who get involved.

Colin Clive gives us a perfect portrayal of a man going through midlife crisis when everything just seems to settle in a dull routine. He's so taken by Hepburn's vitality and independence that their affair has an inevitability about it.

Dorothy Arzner one of the few women directors around at that point also gives us one of Kate's very first feminist icon roles. Her first film, A Bill of Divorcement, had Kate as a dutiful daughter who gives up her man to care for an insane father. Kate has some critical choices to make in Christopher Strong as well.

What she does might not make sense to today's audience, but made perfectly good sense in post Victorian Great Britain. She and Clive make a wonderful pair of tragic lovers in a drama that while old fashioned still holds up.

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