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Love Bound
Murder on the High Seas
USA 1932
produced by Sam Efrus for Peerless
directed by Robert F. Hill
starring Jack Mulhall, Natalie Moorhead, Richard Alexander, Roy D'Arcy, Lynton Brent, Clara Kimball Young, Montagu Love, Tom Ricketts, Edmund Breese, Alice Day, William V. Mong, Hattie McDaniel, Sam McDaniel, Gordon De Main, Sydney Bracey
story by James R.Gilbert, adaptation and dialogue by Robert F.Hill, continuity by George H. Plympton, music by Lee Zahler
review by Mike Haberfelner
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John Randolph (Montagu Love) has fallen prey to professional
golddiggers, Verna Wilson (Natalie Moorhead) and Juan de Leon (Roy
D'Arcy), who manage to get 100.000 Dollars from him in court and - despite
the fact that he's innocent - wreck his marriage to Jane (Clara Kimball
Young). However, Randolph's son Dick (Jack Mulhall)m believes his father's
innocent and to that end goes undercover on a cruiseship he knows Verna's
travelling on and has his chauffeur Larry (Richard Alexander) in tow who
poses as a Texas oil tycoon as a lure for Verna.
The trap works, but after a short time Dick has to realize the trap
works only all too well, as Larry falls in love with Verna for real. So
Dick decides to take over himself - and before you know it, Verna falls in
love with him, and for real too. Then though her former lover Jimmy
(Lynton Brent) shows up on the cruiseship as well, and before you know it,
he and Dick get into a fistfight, during which Verna's partner Juan shoots
Jimmy, intending to let Dick take the rap. At first, Verna, who has since
learned Dick's true identity and intentions, goes along with Juan's plan
and blames everything on Dick, but then her conscience catches up with
her, and she decides to come clean by accusing Juan of having shot Jimmy
and agreeing to make a statement in court that will clear Dick's father of
all charges - even if she knows that Dick is engaged to someone else
(Alice Day) and will never come back to her.
Cheesy little crime drama that spends way too much time to build up its
story only to then - when finally suspense starts to be building up
- let it end rather suddenly and unsatisfactory, and on a kitsch note too.
Not really good.
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