After Office Hours (1935), starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett, is a His Girl Friday meets The Philadelphia Story cocktail with Clark Gable playing the Walter Burns part of hard boiled newspaper editor and Constance Bennett playing Tracy Lord slumming as a cub reporter. It only runs for 74 minutes. You have the time to spend on this gem.
Constance Bennett circulates among the Ivy League educated, scull boat rowing, Swiss finishing school class. Clark Gable swirls in the eddies of the school of hard knocks. It's a match made in Hollywood Heaven.
The movie shines a light on the social realities of The Depression, similar to Gold Diggers of 1933 and My Man Godfrey. Constance Bennett arrives at work in a chauffeured limousine. Her mother laments her lack of servants. The upper crust dines at the River Terrace with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge, and travel to and fro in launches from their houses on the Hudson.
The dialog is crisp and snappy, and the film is filled with delightful details like a no nonsense maid bristling while being interviewed by the police over a murder case, a fighting Italian couple serving ham and eggs at 1:00 AM to an upper crust couple, a bachelor pad on the Hudson that would match the lifestyle of Pierce Brosnan's Thomas Crowne, and Clark Gable's goofy hats.
The plot is kind of thin and straight forward. The story is carried by the dialog, but there is a fantastic car chase and a couple of fist fights to liven things up. And Gable and Bennett have great chemistry. A good time was had by all.
Constance Bennett circulates among the Ivy League educated, scull boat rowing, Swiss finishing school class. Clark Gable swirls in the eddies of the school of hard knocks. It's a match made in Hollywood Heaven.
The movie shines a light on the social realities of The Depression, similar to Gold Diggers of 1933 and My Man Godfrey. Constance Bennett arrives at work in a chauffeured limousine. Her mother laments her lack of servants. The upper crust dines at the River Terrace with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge, and travel to and fro in launches from their houses on the Hudson.
The dialog is crisp and snappy, and the film is filled with delightful details like a no nonsense maid bristling while being interviewed by the police over a murder case, a fighting Italian couple serving ham and eggs at 1:00 AM to an upper crust couple, a bachelor pad on the Hudson that would match the lifestyle of Pierce Brosnan's Thomas Crowne, and Clark Gable's goofy hats.
The plot is kind of thin and straight forward. The story is carried by the dialog, but there is a fantastic car chase and a couple of fist fights to liven things up. And Gable and Bennett have great chemistry. A good time was had by all.