Goodbye Love (1933)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

H. Bruce Humberstone

Writers:

Hampton Del Ruth (story)
Hampton Del Ruth (writer) ...

Release Date:

10 November 1933 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy...

Plot Keywords:

Marriage | Atlantic City New Jersey | Alimony | Domestic | Hoax

Cast

Charles Ruggles	...	Oswald Groggs
Verree Teasdale	...	Phyllis Van Kamp aka Fanny Malone
Sidney Blackmer	...	Chester Hamilton
Phyllis Barry	...	Dorothy Blaine
Ray Walker	...	Brooks
Mayo Methot	...	Sandra Hamilton
John Kelly	...	Sergeant Dugan the Jailer
Grace Hayle	...	Lura 'Ducky' Groggs
Luis Alberni	...	Tony
Richard Tucker	...	Eddie the Lawyer
Edward Van Sloan	...	Judge
Gerald Fielding	...	Dunwoodie - Sandra's Beau
Drew Demorest	...	Desk Clerk

Also Known As:

Alimony Racket (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

67 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved

Company:

Jefferson Pictures Corporation

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Goodbye Love

Alimonies, Vacation and Wedding Ring

When the wealthy Wall Street businessman Chester Hamilton (Sidney Blackmer) is arrested for missing the payment of due alimonies to his ex-wife, he finds his butler Oswald Groggs (Charles Ruggles) in the jail arrested for the same motive. Chester gives US$ 2,500.00 to Oswald to pay his debts, but the butler gives only part of the money to his ex-wife and travels to the seashore on vacation pretending to be the wealthy "Sir" Oswald Groggs. The gold digger Phyllis Van Kamp a.k.a. Fanny Malone (Verree Teasdale) mistakenly believes he is an aristocrat British playboy and has a brief affair with him. Oswald falls in love for her and pays her expensive hotel bill and buys a valuable ring among other presents; after draining his money, Fanny leaves him. Oswald returns to Chester's home and he has a surprise when he finds that his boss has just married Fanny. He tells the truth to Chester and together with his friends and his secretary Dorothy Blaine (Phyllis Barry), they plot a scheme against Fanny to get a divorce.

In 2009, it is funny to see the moral values and clichés of 1933 in this dated but entertaining comedy. The well succeeded men are white; the servants are mostly black; the women are gold diggers or a fragile and naive secretary in love with her boss. The DVD released by Alpha Home Entertainment is not restored and has a bad quality of image and sound which associated to the absence of subtitles make difficult for a foreigner to understand part of the dialogs. My vote is six.

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