Let's Try Again (1934)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Worthington Miner

Writers:

Vincent Lawrence (play)
Worthington Miner (adaptation)

Release Date:

6 July 1934 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Tailor | Doctor | Divorce | English | Jealousy

Cast

Diana Wynyard	...	Alice Overton
Clive Brook	...	Dr. Jack Overton
Helen Vinson	...	Ann (Credits) / Nan Blake
Irene Hervey	...	Marge Phelps
Theodore Newton	...	Paul Milburn
Arthur Hoyt	...	Phillips, the Butler
Henry Kolker	...	Mr. Blake
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Oscar Apfel	...	(scenes deleted)
Bruce Cabot	...	(scenes deleted)
Steffi Duna	...	(scenes deleted)
William H. Strauss	...	(scenes deleted)

Also Known As:

Sour Grapes (USA) (working title)
The Marriage Symphony (UK)

Runtime:

67 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Victor System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #1342-R, 29 August 1935 for re-release) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Company:

RKO Radio Pictures

...on second thought, let's not

A picture that should have taken the advice of its title. Man wants divorce, gets jealous when wife finds another man, wants her back, she refuses, then changes her mind... this could have gone on forever, but thankfully does peter out in just over an hour. The theme is hackneyed, the treatment lackluster, the humor weak-kneed. Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard give it their hoity-toity best, but as they were never big stars, and this trifle could only have survived via big-star power, it flops. A few points for good 30s photography keep it from being totally forgettable.