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Double Harness

1933, Movie, NR, 70 mins

Double Harness: Review

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Based on a trivial play that barely had a run in the Big Apple, this stands out as a sophisticated comedy that reflects the period accurately and shows off the stars to best advantage. Harding is mad for Powell, but he's a Casanova with no intentions of uniting for any more than one evening. They are having an affair, and she plans on her father catching them in flagrante delicto in order to trap Powell into giving up his other amours. In the hands of different creators, this might have become a tawdry story, but Cromwell's direction of Murfin's screenplay is such that we are presented with a woman who is not duplicitous. She really does love the wealthy Powell and is eager to keep him from making a fool of himself with various golddiggers. Her approach is totally forthright and her methods are quite modern as she seeks to convince Powell that she is the one person for him. Naturally, it works. Sharp dialog and no-nonsense direction highlight the performances. Powell had never been so urbane, and this film led the way to many more roles in that vein. Harding, born Dorothy Walton Gatley in 1901, did her first films in 1929 and continued acting through the mid-1950s but never became an enormous super-star, mainly due to the wrong selection of scripts by whomever guided her career. Reginald Owen does his usual excellent job in one of the roles he's almost patented: the Jeevesian butler. leave a comment
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