His Wife's Lover (1931)
- Directed by
- Sidney M. Goldin
- Genre
- comedy film, musical film, romance film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rated
- NR
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An actor impersonates an old man to marry a young woman. Then he takes on another disguise to test her faithfulness.
playfullightheartedwhimsicalromanticcomicmusicalfarce
What happens
His Wife's Lover (1931, original Yiddish title Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik) was billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture". A play before it as a film, it was based on Ferenc Molnár's The Guardsman. Ludwig Satz, who also wrote the songs, plays an actor who disguises himself as an old man, wins the hand of a beautiful young woman, then adopts a different persona and tries to seduce her to test her fidelity. Satz's performance in this farce has been compared to the work of later Jewish comic performers such as Jerry Lewis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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