Recaptured Love is a 1930 early talkie pre-Code musical drama film based on the play Misdeal by Basil Woon about a man who experiences a mid life crisis that results in his divorce. It stars Belle Bennett and John Halliday.
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| Directed by | John G. Adolfi |
| Written by | Charles Kenyon based on the play Misdeal by Basil Woon |
| Starring | John Halliday Belle Bennett Dorothy Burgess Junior Durkin |
| Cinematography | John Stumar |
| Edited by | James Gibbon |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
editA 50-year-old married man goes with his wife and son to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man and becomes jealous.
Cast
edit- Belle Bennett as Helen Parr
- John Halliday as Brentwood Parr
- Dorothy Burgess as Peggy Price
- Richard Tucker as Rawlings
- Junior Durkin as Henry Parr
- Brooks Benedict as Pat
Preservation
editThe film survives complete. It was transferred on to 16mm film by Associated Artists Productions in 1966 and shown on television. A 16mm copy is housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.[1] It is also preserved in the Library of Congress collection.[2]
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ Noted: Recaptured Love Archived December 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, wisconsinhistory.org; accessed July 23, 2015.
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.150 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
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