Herbert Ross Movies
Goodbye Love is a lampoon of what was once designated the "alimony racket." Refusing to meet his wife's exorbitant alimony demands, Sidney Blackmer volunteers to go to jail, where he finds that his cellmate is his own valet (Charlie Ruggles), incarcerated because he can't make his alimony payments. Finally able to raise enough money to secure his freedom, Ruggles heads to Atlantic City, where he makes the acquaintance of a gold-digger Veree Teasdale. Eventually Teasdale marries Blackmer for the express purpose of later divorcing him and claiming his bank account. When Blackmer learns the truth, he enlists the aid of Ruggles and newspaperman Ray Walker to get even with both his past and present wife. The frivolous storyline requires Charlie Ruggles to pose as a British nobleman and a big-game hunter, which he does with his usual comic aplomb. The final production of Jefferson Pictures Corporation, Goodbye Love was released by RKO Radio. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Veree Teasdale, Mayo Methot, (more)
- 1931
In this British drama, a new public school encounters trouble when the new sports instructor arrives and begins using his willful personality to manipulate his peers and the headmaster. When he attempts to forcibly foist himself upon the assistant matron, a brave hero intervenes and saves her. Later the matron and he journey to Canada to begin a new life. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1931
As the curtain rises, the faithful butler to an elderly dowager is found murdered. The dowager herself is found nowhere -- she's completely disappeared, and foul play is suspected. Scotland Yard investigates, but the detectives are stymied by the fact that the suspects all have airtight alibis -- all supplied by the other suspects. Heroine Anne Grey tries to piece together the clues herself, and the results lead her into the clutches of a gang of jewel smugglers. Based on a play by Jack Celestin and Jack DeLeon, The Man at Six was released in the U.S. as The Gables Mystery, which was also the title of the 1938 remake. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
This uncharacteristic Alfred Hitchcock endeavor was adapted by Hitch and his wife, Alma Reville, from a play by John Galsworthy. The British countryside turns into an ideological battlefield when Hornblower (Edmund Gwenn), a wealthy, self-man tradesman, stakes his claim to a piece of valuable forest property controlled for literally centuries by the "landed gentry." The local squire (C.V. France) and his wife (Helen Haye) dig in their heels and refuse to acknowledge Hornblower's presence -- how dare he use mere money to challenge the rights of blood? Their genteel snobbery is every bit as obnoxious as Hornblower's brash effrontery, and the result is a film with virtually no heroes or villains whatever. Never in any future film did Hitchcock ever lobby so strong an attack on the smug implacability of the aristocracy -- perhaps wisely, since The Skin Game proved to be one of his least-successful films. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, (more)
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