LOVE AFFAIR
Sog.: dal racconto “Love Affair” diUrsula Parrott (1930); Scen.: Jo Swerling, Dorothy Howell; F.: Teddy Tetzlaff; Mo.: Jack Dennis; Su.: Charles Noyes; Int.: Dorothy Mackaill (Carol Owen), Humphrey Bogart (Jim Leonard), Jack Kennedy (Gilligan), Barbara Leonard (Felice), Astrid Allwyn (Linda Lee), Bradley Page (Geòrgie Keeler), Halliwell Hobbes (Kibbee), Hale Hamilton (Sig. Bruce Hardy), Harold Minjir (Antone); Prod.: Columbia Pictures; Pri. prò.: 17 marzo 1932 35mm. D.: 68′.
Film Notes
Back in Hollywood after a brief appereance in After All on Broadway, Bogart was the male lead opposite Dorothy Mackaill, a popular young star of the 1920s nearing the end of her career. She plays an heiress and he a poor aeronautical engineer anxious to get backing for a new engine he has designed, and he teaches her to fly. They fall in love, she loses her fortune, and tries to marry a wealthy broker so that he can have his funding, a plan that goes adrift. There is far too much story for so short a film, but Bogart handles his role creditably, including a life-saving race against time as the dramatic climax.
George Perry, Bogie – A Celebration of the Life and Films of Humphrey Bogart, Aurum, United Kingdom, 2006