A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
James Dunn
Eddie Collins
Sally Eilers
Dorothy Haley
Minna Gombell
Edna Driggs
Frank Darien
Lathrop
William Pawley
Jim Haley
Claude King
Dr. Burgess
Louis Natheaux
Mr. Thompson
Sarah Padden
Mrs. Gardner
Charles Sullivan
Mike the Prizefighter
Billy Watson
Floyd
Frank Austin
Upstairs Tenement Neighbor (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
Expectant Father (uncredited)
William Bailey
Expectant Father of Twins (uncredited)
Jesse De Vorska
Expectant Father (uncredited)
Paul Fix
Nervous Expectant Father (uncredited)
Edward Hearn
Male Nurse (uncredited)
Aggie Herring
Seamstress (uncredited)
Lorin Raker
Male Nurse (uncredited)
Director
Frank Borzage
Dialogue
Edwin J. Burke
Novel
Viña Delmar
Writer
Brian Marlow
Writer
Rudolf Sieber
May 4, 2024
7
I don't know that honesty is always the best policy, but I think that this melodrama might have gone much more smoothly for the married "Dorothy" (Sally Eilers) and "Eddie" (James Dunn) if they, especially the latter, had just been a little more upfront with the other. She basically thinks all men are predatory wastrels; he that women just want to shop their way trough life. Despite these obvious misgivings, and because he treats her with almost as much disinterest as she does him, the pair start to quite like each other. She's got a brother who is a controlling pain in the neck, so they come up with a plan to get her married so she's out of his ambit. Swiftly, with a baby looming, he loses his job and desperate times call for desperate measures - all against a tapestry of mistrust and scepticism! There are times when I just wanted to bang their heads together and I took that as a sign that they were all doing their jobs properly. Dunn delivers quite engagingly, especially as the film progresses and his character's inability to simply be honest and less priggish just worsens his problems. It takes a while to get going, but once the dynamic is laid out for us, then this is quite an amiably presented look at the stupidity of human nature and of the breadwinning custom and is well worth ninety minutes - though maybe not if you're headed to a maternity ward anytime soon.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$100,000.00
Revenue:
$1,100,000.00