Four's a Crowd (1938)

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Writers:

Wallace Sullivan (story)
Casey Robinson (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

3 September 1938 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Two's company, three's a triangle but "Four's a Crowd!"

Plot:

Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels...

Plot Keywords:

Public Relations | Justice Of The Peace | Newspaper | Secretary | Deception

Cast

Errol Flynn	...	Robert Kensington 'Bob' Lansford
Olivia de Havilland	...	Lorri Dillingwell
Rosalind Russell	...	Jean Christy
Patric Knowles	...	Patterson 'Pat' Buckley
Walter Connolly	...	John P. Dillingwell
Hugh Herbert	...	Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace
Melville Cooper	...	Bingham, Dillingwell's Butler
Franklin Pangborn	...	Preston
Herman Bing	...	Herman, Barber
Margaret Hamilton	...	Amy, Dillingwell's Housekeeper
Joseph Crehan	...	Butler Pierce
Joe Cunningham	...	Ed Young
Dennie Moore	...	Buckley's Secretary (scenes deleted)
Gloria Blondell	...	Gertrude, Lansford's 1st Secretary
Carole Landis	...	Myrtle, Lansford's 2nd Secretary

Also Known As:

All Rights Reserved (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #4151)

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

The fourth of nine movies made together by Warner Brothers' romantic couple Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn.

Quotes:

Jean Christy: I'm in love with a man whom I dislike intensely, who'd cheat me, who'd lie to me, whom I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw the Queen Mary. I...
Robert Kensington 'Bob' Lansford: You... you don't mean me, do you?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

Soundtrack:

Bridal Chorus

Light, silly with 3 Good Stars

This is certainly a film that has not stood the test of time so when they say "Why don't they make movies like they used to?", I am sure they were not referring to this film. The plot is silly and very hard to really get interested in, and the 90 minutes it runs for is certainly long enough. I know believability should not come into it, but this one really stretches the imagination too far. If we saw the dogs chase Errol Flynn once more, I would have had to turn it off! The role they gave Olivia de Havilland was an insult to her ability, and the same could be said For Rosiland Russell, but there was more meat in her character so it was not as much a travesty. Patric Knowles had about his biggest role, and unfortunately for him, it did not work too well. Some of the character actors in supporting roles were adequate. It proved to me that when partnered with Flynn, Miss de Havilland should have insisted on Adventure or Western scripts.