Our Dancing Daughters (1928) is routine melodrama at best and hypocritical tripe at worst.
This film is famous for supposedly celebrating the liberated youth of the Roaring Twenties, but if anything, it's espousing a more conservative views in terms of romance and sexuality. Joan Crawford plays a flapper who's really a virginal innocent underneath it all. All shine, no substance.
The plot itself is predictable, with little to distinguish it. The way the romantic triangle is resolved at the end is beyond convenient and almost laughable.
Joan Crawford is fun and the underrated Anita Page does well with her role, but they cannot save this ship. Cool party scenes do not a great movie make. ODD is a great time capsule, but that is the most I can say.
This film is famous for supposedly celebrating the liberated youth of the Roaring Twenties, but if anything, it's espousing a more conservative views in terms of romance and sexuality. Joan Crawford plays a flapper who's really a virginal innocent underneath it all. All shine, no substance.
The plot itself is predictable, with little to distinguish it. The way the romantic triangle is resolved at the end is beyond convenient and almost laughable.
Joan Crawford is fun and the underrated Anita Page does well with her role, but they cannot save this ship. Cool party scenes do not a great movie make. ODD is a great time capsule, but that is the most I can say.