The Malcolm St. Clair's silent Adolph Menjou comedies are such a pleasure, it's sad to see how badly he coped with the arrival of sound, ending doing some of Laurel and Hardy's most feeble films.
So much watching people talk, with minimum titling, throws attention firmly on talented leads.
Here the team is in great form with (over age) daughter Bronson re-uniting super civilized parents Menjou and Vidor by becoming involved with `that movie sheik' Beranger. The gleaming home decors and evening dressed leads show the Paramount comedy firmly in place before Lubitsch and Claudette Colbert showed up.
So much watching people talk, with minimum titling, throws attention firmly on talented leads.
Here the team is in great form with (over age) daughter Bronson re-uniting super civilized parents Menjou and Vidor by becoming involved with `that movie sheik' Beranger. The gleaming home decors and evening dressed leads show the Paramount comedy firmly in place before Lubitsch and Claudette Colbert showed up.