The Plastic Age (1925)

Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to go to parties. He finds that it is impossible to please ... See full summary »

Director:

Wesley Ruggles

Writers:

Frederica Sagor Maas (adaptation) (as Frederica Sagor), Percy Marks (novel)

Stars:

Donald Keith, Mary Alden, Henry B. Walthall

Cast

Cast overview:
Donald Keith	...	Hugh Carver
Mary Alden	...	Mrs. Carver
Henry B. Walthall	...	Henry Carver
Gilbert Roland	...	Carl Peters
Clara Bow	...	Cynthia Day
David Butler	...	James Henley

Storyline

Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to go to parties. He finds that it is impossible to please her and still keep up with his studies and his athletic training, and soon the two face some difficult decisions.

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Plot Keywords:

college | american football | flapper | based on novel | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance | Sport

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 December 1925 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Idade de Amar

Filming Locations:

Pomona College - 333 N. College Way, Claremont, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

B.P. Schulberg Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

73 min

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Plastic Age was based on the popular 1922 novel of the same name, which was written by Brown University professor Percy Marks. Ben Schulberg, the film producer who discovered Clara Bow in 1923, paid $45,000 for the rights of the book.

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Connections

Remade as Red Lips (1928)

User Reviews

Life And Athletics

One of the first inter-titles of "The Plastic Age" states that the film is dedicated to the youth of the world. So, as you youngsters can imagine, this film started in a very suspicious way for this German Count. Because, in spite of the fact that the youth reflected in this movie is from the 20's, a youngster is always a youngster…and a risky period for people no matter what the era.

The film depicted the story of Hugh Carver (Donald Keith) a youngster and an athlete too (a terrible combination, indeed) who goes to college. This is in order to learn more about life… and athletics. He will certainly also learn in this experience about the evils of life such as ( in order of danger ) women ( Dame Clara Bow ) and tobacco while forgetting through the fault of these matters, his training, his running and all that exercising not to mention his studies… especially chemistry (except for that with Dame Bow ).

"The Plastic Age" it is another harmless and typical film production about a classic USA film sub-genre, that is to say, "innocent and sporty youngster knows a vamp girl who infatuated him; they love each other passionately, and then they love not but thanks to an important football game at the end of the film, that obviously the boy will win, they will love each other again till the end of times".

In accordance with the film, Herr Wesley Ruggles direction it is anodyne and predictable. There is no emotion or motion, nothing interesting happens in the film other than Dame Bow wears gowns nicely and that makes for scarce merits for this German aristocrat.

And now, if you'll allow me, I must temporarily take my leave because this German Count must practise his favourite sport, reach out the Porto glass and then put it on the Teutonic table.

Herr Graf Ferdinand Von Galitzien http://ferdinandvongalitzien.blogspot.com/