The Goose and the Gander (1935)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Alfred E. Green

Writers:

Charles Kenyon (story)
Charles Kenyon (screenplay)

Release Date:

21 September 1935 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

The Most Glamorous Story of a Beautiful Girl Who Loved and Lost...Her Temper!

Plot Keywords:

Marriage Proposal | Automobile Theft | Hotel | Infidelity | Marriage

Cast

Kay Francis	...	Georgiana Summers
George Brent	...	Robert 'Bob' McNear
Genevieve Tobin	...	Betty Summers
John Eldredge	...	Lawrence Thurston
Claire Dodd	...	Connie Thurston
Ralph Forbes	...	Ralph Summers
Helen Lowell	...	Aunt Julia Hamilton
Spencer Charters	...	Detective 'Wink' Winkelsteinberger
William Austin	...	Arthur Summers
Eddie Shubert	...	Sweeney, Attendant Leaking Gasoline
Charles Coleman	...	Jones, Georgiana's Butler
Olive Jones	...	Miriam Brent
Bill Elliott	...	Teddy (as Gordon Elliott)
John Sheehan	...	Murphy, Gas Station Attendant
Wade Boteler	...	Sprague, Hotel Detective

Runtime:

65 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #730)

Company:

First National Pictures

Soundtrack:

The Little Things You Used to Do

Fun adult situation theme from the 1930's

The best thing about this romantic comedy is how good it looks thanks to cinematographer Sidney Hickok. This 1935 but the interior scenes look like they were shot in the 1950's. Hickok was a brilliant cinematographer whose career began in the silents and he would go on to shoot such films as The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, To Have and Have Not, A slight Case of Murder, Gentleman Jim and the sci-fi classic Them. Charles Kenyon wrote the story and the screenplay about a woman who overhears the woman who stole away her husband planning a weekend affair with another man so she hatches an elaborate plan to embarrass the woman and her ex by diverting the cheating couple to her home and getting her ex to come over to catch them. Another couple who are jewel thieves are inadvertently lured into her trap and things start getting complicated. It's a good story and a good cast with Kay Francis, George Bret, Genevieve Tobin, John Eldredge, Claire Dodd, Ralph Forbes, William Austin and Helen Lowell. With the rampant infidelity theme this story was probably written with pre-code Hollywood in mind but with the code going into effect the year before it's release it was filmed as a little less salacious. Alfred E. Green who would make such films as The Jolson Story and The Jackie Robinson Story directs. it's a fun little film and I would give it a 7.0 out of 10.