This movie does not seem to have survived in its original length of 73 minutes, but in a Kodascope 16mm copy of around one hour. The story now moves in a series of jerks. No, "moves" is the wrong word. The movie hardly moves at all. It stumbles along in a series of non-sequiturs that are so boring, it's not even worthwhile looking up how to spell the word. The male leads, Conway Tearle and Paul Page, are pretty dreadful in all respects, including charisma, charm and acting abilities. In fact it's hard to believe that Conway Tearle was a major star in "B" movies right up to 1936. However, it was good to see Carmel Myers who had a remarkable career from 1915 to 1976 (she died in 1980). Frances Dade who played the second femme role in "Dracula" can also be glimpsed in this movie as well as – at least according to the blurb on the Alpha DVD – Lina Basquette, but with 13 minutes or so missing, I wouldn't be too sure of that – and I'm certainly not going to run the movie again to find out!
Review of Pleasure
