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Riptide (1934)

Riptide poster
Directed by
Edmund Goulding
Genre
romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman returns from Europe to find her marriage strained after a scandalous rumor. She must navigate high society gossip and her own feelings.

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What happens

Riptide is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery and Herbert Marshall, written and directed by Edmund Goulding, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was released a few months before the Production Code was enforced. This film had a noteworthy appearance by Mrs. Patrick Campbell, a famous stage actress known for her friendship and correspondence with playwright George Bernard Shaw and her creation of Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's play Pygmalion. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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