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His Woman (1931)
2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :-
Sentimental but effective melodrama, 18 June 2006
Author: genet-1 from France
Veteran Sloman's long career was winding down in 1931, but he shows a steady hand in this cliché tale of a stern but naive young sea captain (Cooper) who falls for the "entertainer" (Colbert) who, desperate to escape from a South American port, bluffs her way on board as nurse for a foundling baby dumped in the ship's dinghy. Romance takes second place, however, to scenes stolen by the engagingly vivacious and good-natured baby (Richard Spiro), and by the ship's African-American servants, played in Amos and Andy-style cross-talk by Hamtree Harrington and Sidney Easton. (Journeyman director of photography William O. Steiner went on to light a number of films featuring African American entertainers.) HIS WOMAN is a respectable B movie, worth seeing for the almost exaggeratedly tall young Cooper and the detail of Colbert's tramp friends, who lounge around their shared apartment in pre-Production Code undress. Colbert's first appearance, arriving by boat at night in search of a nightclub job, and some byplay in the cantina between Cooper and dancer Raquel Davidovich, who tempts him by kissing a flower, both recall Marlene Dietrich and Cooper in the previous year's MOROCCO, suggesting Paramount may have hoped to trade on that film's success.
Brisk and Simple and Effective, 13 June 2008
Author: DLiebert from New York, NY
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
I bought Arise My Love a classic Colbert film and this was thrown in as a free gift. I actually enjoyed this more. Production values are strictly B-Movie and very bare. Cooper the tough and efficient captain is lonely and conflicted. His one night ashore ends in a spectacularly angry brawl over a woman he probably didn't really want anyway. . Its almost as though he really had rather fight than f-ck. Lot of anger and sadness in the man and though he's not quite the actor he would eventually be, he does convey this loneliness well.
The pre-code sleaze doesn't suit the elegant Colbert but the script doesn't lay it on too thick. It was relief to see her play the missionary's daughter and wipe the cupid's bow lipstick off - she didn't even look like her beautiful self under all the paint.
The story runs its predictable course but when the Captain hooks up with the vicious attempted rapist and gets drunk with him and then drags him to her apartment and throws him back at her again - I was shocked at the cruelty and his hurt that motivated it. The Captain was a man who found it difficult to love, probably feared women and the one time he let himself love he feels he was made a sucker. It was shamelessly melodramatic but effective. The baby almost dies, the baby that is the only bond between the Captain and Sally. She is the one who nurses it to life, for both of them it is a symbol of innocence and for caring for something outside of themselves.
Far better than I expected.
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The 30 Year Old Gary Cooper, 23 October 2003
Author: Single-Black-Male from London, England
No matter what film Gary Cooper is in, he always acts and looks the same. His tall, gangling figure makes him look clumsy and awkward, and his monotone voice has no variety, range or depth of emotion. But the one thing I definitely don't believe about him is that young women fall for him. This is totally down to biased scripting.
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