Review of Wide Open

Wide Open (1930)
6/10
early Ed Horton film
7 May 2020
Edward Horton is Simon, meek, mild mannered worker. When co-worker Agatha and her mother bust into Simon's apartment, it seems to be a set up. they leave (apparently), and another young, partially dressed girl (Patsy Miller) shows up in his living room. the script needed fixing up, but it IS an early film with Edward Horton, in his usual complaining, overwhelmed self. the sound and picture are a bit iffy, but this is already 90 years old, so we're lucky to have such an oldie at all. and it's 1930, so it was still okay to show partially dressed women running around your living room. fast talking, not much of a plot, kind of runs like a vaudeville bit. This was one of six films Horton and Miller made together. pretty bland, but interesting for historical reasons. I'm a big fan of Edward Horton, and they gave him much better scripts over the next 20 years. Directed by Archie Mayo, who directed Bogart in Petrified Forest. Based on a book by Edwin Morris.
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