70% (1)  Ah Wilderness!  98 min,  PASSED,  [Comedy, Drama]  [Clarence Brown]  [01 Apr 1936]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 70%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Aline MacMahon, Eric Linden, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery
Writer:  Frances Goodrich (screen play), Albert Hackett (screen play), Eugene O'Neill (from the celebrated stage success by)
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Plot:  Young idealist Richard Miller is selected as valedictorian for his New England high school commencement class of 1906 and intends to inject modern anti-capitalistic ideas into his speech. His father, Nat Miller, accidentally learns of it and interrupts Richard's speech before he can make a fool of himself. The small town later celebrates the Fourth of July with customary fireworks, picnics and the like, with Richard spending time with his girl, Muriel McComber, who promises she will allow him to kiss her one day. When Richard sends poems of love to Muriel, quoting the likes of Omar Khayyám and Swinburne, her father prevents her from ever seeing him again and forces her to write a letter denouncing him. Heartbroken, Richard drowns his sorrow in a local bar, drinking and smoking with a vamp called Belle, and comes home drunk. Alcoholic uncle Sid, who is used to the effects of liquor, nurses Richard back to sobriety, but Richard still must face the uncertain punishment of his father as he worries about his future with Muriel.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Playwright Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! was filmed by MGM in 1935. Impressionable turn-of-the-century lad Eric Linden, whose knowledge of the ways of the world has come from French novels, is anxious to taste life to the fullest. Linden's father Lionel Barrymore sternly advises the boy to be good and be careful, while Barrymore's shiftless, bibulous brother-in-law Wallace Beery (replacing MGM's first choice, W.C. Fields) encourages Linden to get out, get drunk and get...you know what. After a frightening encounter with lady of the evening Helen Flint (a surprisingly frank characterization for a Production Code film), Linden runs home, nursing a monster hangover the next day. The boy eventually accepts the sedate affections of his childhood sweetheart Jean Parker, while a chastened Beery promises to mend his ways--and Barrymore decides to be more of a father and less of an autocrat to his son. Ah, Wilderness would be musicalized (and bowdlerized) by MGM as the 1947 film Summer Holiday.
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69% (1)  A Family Affair  69 min,  Passed,  [Comedy]  [George B. Seitz]  [12 Mar 1937]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 69%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Cecilia Parker, Eric Linden, Lionel Barrymore, Mickey Rooney
Writer:  Aurania Rouverol (play), Kay Van Riper
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Plot:  Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and ...
Rotten Tomatoes:   This gentle comedy/drama centers around the Hardy family of a small, idealized American town. Judge Hardy hopes to be re-elected, but his campaign is put in jeopardy by his opposition of a wasteful public works program. The Judge's position is also threatened by his daughter's unexplained separation from her husband.
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63% (1)  Big City Blues  63 min,  UNRATED,  [Comedy, Drama]  [Mervyn LeRoy]  [18 Sep 1932]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 63%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Eric Linden, Joan Blondell, Jobyna Howland, Ned Sparks
Writer:  Ward Morehouse (play), Ward Morehouse (screenplay), Lillie Hayward (screenplay)
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Plot:  Seventy-two hours in the life of Indiana man Bud who inherits money and heads for New York City where his cousin Gibbony introduces him to chorus girl Vida for whom he falls. When a girl is killed by a drunk at a party in his hotel room, Bud is the chief suspect.
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60% (1)  The Age of Consent  63 min,  PASSED,  [Drama, Romance]  [Gregory La Cava]  [19 Aug 1932]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 60%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Arline Judge, Dorothy Wilson, Eric Linden, Richard Cromwell
Writer:  Martin Flavin (play), Sarah Y. Mason (screenplay), Francis M. Cockrell (screenplay)
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Plot:  College co-eds learn to handle the responsibilities of romance.
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57% (1)  Here's Flash Casey  58 min,  APPROVED,  [Action, Drama, Romance]  [Lynn Shores]  [07 Jan 1938]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 57%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Boots Mallory, Cully Richards, Eric Linden, Holmes Herbert
Writer:  John W. Krafft (original screenplay), George Harmon Coxe (story "Return Engagement")
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Plot:  Flash Casey, after working his way through college by taking pictures, finds the newspaper world harder to break into than he had expected. Free-lancing, he snaps a picture of Rodney ...
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