Riptide

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acsdoug D @acsdoug 05/13/2024 I liked this one. There was genuine suspense as to which guy she would choose, although the story wraps up a little too quickly and neatly. See more Steve D 01/04/2024 It is hard to buy into the main relationship. See more Ashley H @ashleyhobgood87 07/18/2022 Riptide is an okay film. It is about Mary who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Norma Shearer and Herbert Marshall give good performances. The script is a little slow in places. Edmund Goulding did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the drama and romance. See more 04/17/2019 Poor script and overbearing acting by Shearer. You want to shake her and ask "Why can't you just be yourself?" Hopefully, the affected and effete presence she maintains on screen is not the real person. There is no chemistry here between any of the actors and only the opening scene is funny, but it has no relevance to anything that is to come. Thalberg should have shut this down as soon as he realized this was bad. Wouldn't reading the script do that? See more 11/14/2015 wrong description here Flixter-dumbasses! See more 08/17/2014 This is an interesting plot if one considers the time period it was produced. However, it must have been difficult for the working person of the1930's to relate to characters spending their time at vacation houses and night clubs and not caring for their children... a rather empty life style to me. All that in mind, the values of faithfulness in marriage are examined in the film. Mary fails the test with her husband , but not necessarily with the audience. Her husband rushes to judgment the first time he hears word of her exploits with another man. Then he pushes her into cheating with him the next time. It is a wonder that the two ever get back together. I enjoyed the acting except that there are times that Robert Mongomery looks more like a punch-drunk boxer than a desirable gentleman. The movie is worth watching for the fashion, the footloose lifestyle (that still exists), and the statements it makes about women and morality. TMC/Comcast cut off the ending by approximately two or three minutes. I had to read here that it was a happy ending. Apparently, the movie is not 90 minutes long! See more Read all reviews

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