Underplayed Gems

White Shoulders (1931)

White Shoulders poster
Directed by
Melville W. Brown
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A woman gets involved with a wealthy man while hiding secrets about her past. The story includes scandals like bigamy and theft. The plot was considered too complicated and unrealistic by critics.

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What happens

White Shoulders is a lost 1931 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Melville W. Brown and starring Mary Astor and Jack Holt, with major supporting roles by Ricardo Cortez and Sidney Toler. The film was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and J. Walter Ruben was adapted from Rex Beach's short story, The Recoil. The film touched on the topics of gold-digging, adultery, bigamy, gigolos, and theft. The rights to the story were optioned in late 1930, and the film went into production in March 1931. After approximately four weeks of filming, the film was screened in May. A remake of the 1924 silent film entitled The Recoil, RKO released the film on June 6, 1931, and it did not perform well at the box office, making it yet another film by RKO to suffer a similar fate. Critically, it was a mixed batch of opinions, ranging from poor to very good. Most reviewers enjoyed at least some of the acting, but virtually all thought the plot was either too convoluted or simply implausible, although some at least gave it credit for its originality. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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