QUICKIE: With a friend like you who needs enemies!
PLOT: (from IMDB): Sophisticated comedy: a trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a different personality type, from sensitive, to kind-hearted, to difficult and untrustworthy. Set in the age of jazz, the twenties come roaring back with immorality and in-fighting.
SUMMARY: Also titled: The Greeks Had a Word for Them. So, would that word be "frenemies"? Or perhaps "gold digger"? Or maybe it's just plain "bitch"! Whatever word you choose, I'm sure at some point you'll wish you could throttle Jean Lawrence. This movie is mainly about Jean (Ina Claire) who returns from Paris completely broke and her and her 2 friends run around town shmoozing the wealthy bachelors.
Jean continually ruins her friends' love affairs thru schemes and frame ups, and eventually sets herself up to marry a rich old man. Her two old pals rush in on her wedding day and through some conniving of their own ruin Jean's plans for a comfortable future. Why the two girls don't kick that nasty tramp to the curb is beyond me, but it makes for a good movie. There are moments when the girls' bickering and pot shots are so shrill, fast and furious that you can't even keep up. But it doesn't matter as it's not crucial to the story, just the fact that they are fighting, then making up, over and over and over, etc..
Three Broadway Girls ~ 1932 -BW
Sinners in Paradise ~ 1938 -BW
QUICKIE: It's Gilligan's Island before there was a tv series!
PLOT: (from IMDB) A seaplane departs for China. On board are a nurse escaping a loveless marriage to do work with refugees, an elderly woman hoping to surprise her estranged son, a wealthy heiress trying to distance herself from labor troubles, an oily Senator, a moll and a mobster fleeing the wrath of the gangs they've double-crossed, two rival munitions salesmen out to cash in on the misery of war, and a fresh-faced young steward. Caught in a course-altering storm, a crash-landing destroys the plane, kills the plane's officers, and tosses the surviving passengers into the sea. They are washed ashore on an isolated island inhabited solely by mysteriously reclusive Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. Until Taylor decides if, how and when he will allow them to take his boat back to China for help, this disparate band must work together, change their self-centered ways, and examine their motives for wanting to escape from the island and their pasts.
SUMMARY: Fabulously hokey film about various characters whose plane goes down and they're marooned on an island. There is a DR/felon living there with his servant who at first refuses to help them. It just so happens that the Dr killed the son of one of the passengers. Of course! The island work is divided and they all go about their chores, fighting and courting one another. A couple of thugish guys steal the boat and kidnap the servant who is the only one who can navigagte the boat. In rough waters the servant manages to kill both thugs yet is wounded himself. He manages to sail the boat back and dies right when the good DR gets aboard to help him. The DR sails the lot back to the Chinese mainland knowing he'll be arrested for murder once he arrives.
What really steals the show is the moll Marion Martin and the parrot that mocks everyone.
