The movie inside this movie -- "Marriage on Approval" -- is a fairly straightforward moral tale of too-strict parents (in this case a preacher-father) forcing their children to rebel against them in order to have any kind of pleasure at all, and, not too unexpectedly, the children rebelling to near-lethal levels (in this case with Prohibition-era alcohol and secret-marriage sex). However, minorly predictable and pleasing as "Marriage on Approval" might have been, someone saw fit to encase it in a straight jacket made of the densest theatrical lard ever seen -- an unbelievable, set-bound, and hammily acted framing sequence that ultimately makes no sense, because since "Marriage on Approval" turns out happily, there is no reason for all the pissing and moaning of the actress who impersonates the star of "Marriage on Approval" during the frame bits. (This quibble will only make sense if you see the film, but to explain it any other way would be to venture into spoiler-land.) Also, for the record, the sound effects of the rainstorm in the framing sequence have got to be the worst rain storm sound effects i have ever heard, on radio, television, or in the movies. I CAN DO BETTER RAIN STORM SOUND EFFECTS WITH MY OWN MOUTH! Listen: Vrrrrroooooooiiiiinnng Vrrrrroooooiiiinnnnng Vrrrrroooooiiiiinnng. See? I told you so!
Review of Reckless Decision
