Saturday, December 1, 2018

In Name Only (1939), 7 {nm}

1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 18 August 1939
After a wealthy man finds out his wife is a gold digger, he meets and falls for a widowed mother, and complications ensue.
Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Kay Francis, Charles Coburn.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031477/
official released disc arrived to replace my bootleg.

Charming romdram. Looking at the cast list, you'd think this would be a sparkling comedy, but it's mostly sturm und drang. KF is wife to CG; CL is the widowed mother for whom CG falls; CC is father to CG. We get light moments with CG & CL, since they're falling in love, but that's shortly constrained by CG's unhappy marriage.

Very clear whom to hiss and cheer. Good ending, although not overly certain as to outcome.

Rated 7.2 (2,199)

RKO, dir. Cromwell; 7