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Waterfront Lady (1935)

Crime | 70 minutes
2,75 4 votes

Genre: Crime / Drama

Duration: 70 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Joseph Santley

Stars: Ann Rutherford, Frank Albertson and J. Farrell McDonald

IMDb score: 6,0 (174)

Releasedate: 4 October 1935

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Waterfront Lady plot

"Featuring...ANN RUTHERFORD...HOLLYWOOD'S NEW GLAMOROUS STAR"

A young man befriends the operator of a gambling ship. Later, the two even become partners in the company. Things take an unexpected turn when the young man gets into trouble for covering up a murder. However, the murder was committed by his new partner.

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A film that doesn't seem to know exactly what it wants to be: in the framing story, an innocent man is on the run from the police, but when he takes refuge in a cottage by the harbor, a sort of rom-com emerges in which he hooks up as a carefree flirt with his neighbor girl whose father has a gambling addiction. Meanwhile, the hope that the unusual harbor setting would provide some atmosphere isn't entirely realized because we see so little of the sea and the activity, but we do get a glimpse of that small community without it going very deep, so that it is all just not quite right, not quite exciting, and not quite funny. Perhaps I shouldn't have hoped for that with a film from 1935 whose cast and crew never made it onto the A-list, although it does feature a few familiar faces: Ann Rutherford had a small role in *Gone with the Wind*, Ward Bond became a *John Ford regular*, and Mary Gordon was Mrs. Hudson, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce's landlady in the Sherlock Holmes films of the 1940s. And director Joseph Santley has nearly 100 credits on IMDb, but I suspect he will primarily be remembered for directing *The Cocoanuts*, the first film featuring the Marx Brothers. Fortunately, he keeps the pace high in this film, and because the two lead actors handle the fast-paced dialogue reasonably well, this film is ultimately quite watchable.

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