Recaptured Love

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Recaptured Love (1930)
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
Editing by James Gibbon
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) July 8, 1930
Running time 77 Minutes
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
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Recaptured Love (1930) is an All-Talking musical drama film based on the play Misdeal by Basil Woon.

[edit] Plot

In this drama, a 50 year old married man (played by John Halliday) goes to with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess) 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 (Richard Tucker, not the famous tenor) and becomes jealous.

[edit] Trivia

The Sisters "G" (Eleanor Gutchrlein and Karla Gutchrlein) appear in the elaborate tango dance number at the beginning of the film. They were hired by Warner Bros. to star in a number of musical pictures but they left late in 1930 due to a backlash against musicals after appearing in only two more pictures, which proved to be their last.

The theme song is "If You Want to Be" and is sung by Dorothy Burgess. The entire movie has a musical track which features popular hits of the day as well as the theme song.

[edit] Preservation

The film survives complete.