This Reckless Age
{{short description|1932 film}}
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{{infobox film
| name = This Reckless Age
| image =File:This Reckless Age.jpg
| caption =
| director = Frank Tuttle
| producer = Jesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor
| writer = Lewis Beach (play The Goose Hangs High)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (screenplay)
| starring = Charles "Buddy" Rogers
| music = John Leipold
| cinematography = Henry Sharp
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1932|01|09}}
| runtime = 80 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
This Reckless Age is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers and produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a Broadway play The Goose Hangs High by Lewis Beach.The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40 published by The American Film Institute (1993)[http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=9468 The Goose Hangs High on Broadway at the Bijou Theatre, January 29, 1924 to June 1924], IBDb.com; accessed November 26, 2015.
One of over 700 Paramount films controlled by Universal Pictures, which in 1948 purchased most of the 1928-1948 Paramount library.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}
Plot
Donald and Eunice Ingals' lives revolve around their children, Bradley and Lois. They have sacrificed and scrimped to give their kids the best, and the kids, thoughtless and young, give little in return except for a smile and thanks now and then.
When Christmas vacation comes, Bradley and Lois pop in on the family. Bradley has come to tell his father he is marrying Mary Burke, which is received rather badly by both parents, while Lois, prankish and impish, spends more of her visit home partying with school friends.
But when Donald finds himself being blamed for a business scandal, the children make serious efforts to save their father's reputation.
Cast
- Charles "Buddy" Rogers as Bradley Ingals
- Richard Bennett as Donald Ingals
- Peggy Shannon as Mary Burke
- Charles Ruggles as Goliath Whitney
- Frances Dee as Lois Ingals
- Frances Starr as Eunice Ingals
- Maude Eburne as Rhoda
- Allen Vincent as Pig Van Dyke
- Mary Carlisle as Cassandra Phelps
- David Landau as Matthew Daggett
- Reginald Barlow as Lester Bell
- George C. Pearce as John Burke
- Grady Sutton as Stepladder Schultz
- Harry Templeton as Monk Turner
- Berton Churchill as Banker
- Leonard Carey as Braithwaite (uncredited)
Critical Response
As reviewer Clara M. Sawdon opined in International Photographer: "Pictures such as this are rare because they are much more difficult to produce than sensational or spectacular ones, but they are welcome innovations, especially when accomplished with such satisfactory coordination of effort as herein evidenced."Sawdon, Clara M. "When Seen Through Feminine Eyes." The International Photographer Vol. 3 No. 12 p34. February, 1932. Accessed 7 May 2023.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0023380}}
- [http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/this-reckless-age-v113403 This Reckless Age at AllRovi]
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Category:American films based on plays
Category:Films directed by Frank Tuttle
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Films with screenplays by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Category:American comedy films
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:Films scored by John Leipold
Category:English-language comedy films
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