The title tells all, but it's still something of a shock to find a pre-code comedy movie made by a top Hollywood company like RKO, treading both so lightly but also so heavily on such controversial topics as the impermanence of marriage, the blatant misuse of courts and legal procedures, the willingness of cops to use jails to enforce crooked alimony payments, the stupidity of clean-cut clergymen and the way alimony-minded gold-diggers can use the courts and legal procedures to enforce crooked payments. And would you believe, all this amusing but highly controversial pointing of the finger is available on DVD in an excellent print (not a mark on it) in the "Family Fun DVD Collection." There's superb acting from the entire cast, particularly Charlie Ruggles who manages to reign-in his usual blustering mannerisms and double talk. Director H. Bruce Humberstone moves it all along at a smart pace and does a superb job not only with his players but with all aspects of this somewhat startling yet fast-moving production. Full marks to Verree Teasdale, Sidney Blackmer, Phyllis Barry and Hattie McDaniel in an uncredited role as Edna, the maid.
Review of Good-bye Love
