Recaptured Love
| Recaptured Love (1930) | |
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| 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 dates | July 8, 1930 |
| Running time | 77 Minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Recaptured Love (1930) is an All-Talking musical drama film based on the play Misdeal by Basil Woon about a man who experiences a mid life crisis that results in his divorce. It stars Belle Bennett and John Halliday.
Plot
In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes 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.
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.
Preservation
The film survives complete. It was transferred unto 16mm film by Associated Artists Productions in the 1950's and shown on television. A 16mm copy is housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.[1]
Cast
- Belle Bennett as Helen Parr
- John Halliday as Brentwood Parr
- Dorothy Burgess as Peggy Price
- Richard Tucker as Rawlings
- Junior Durkin as Henry Parr
- George Bickel as Crofts
- Brooks Benedict as Pat