According to Hollywood women could not be trusted in the 30's. Specifically, I mean women couldn't be trusted alone with a nice, halfway decent looking man in the 30's. I can't tell you how many movies I've seen in which a man has intentionally or unintentionally left his wife, fiance, or sweetheart alone or with another man only to lose her. It usually only takes a few days, and in some cases only a few hours. Just watch "It Happened One Night" (1934), "Man of the World" (1931), "Other Men's Women" (1930), "Dinner at Eight" (1933), "Transgression" (1931), "Riptide" (1934) and sooooo many other movies from that era.
If a guy doesn't lose his woman outright, he will lose her unshakable love. What I mean is that if she doesn't fall completely in love with the new guy, she will at least be amorously confused. The ardent love she had for her man before will be reduced to a tepid, ambivalent love.
As the late B. I. G. Said, "Don't leave yo' girl around me, true player for real ask Puff Da-ddy."
In "The Mystery of Mr. X," a man went to jail for ten days, came back, and his fiance was lost to a charming American. But that's not what the movie was about.
"The Mystery of Mr. X" was about a killer who was killing cops in England and leaving his moniker: "Mr. X." He was slick, sneaky, silent, and deadly. He was killing officers with a rapier (a long, thin sword). One of the police he killed was right outside of an estate as Nicholas 'Nick' Revel (Robert Montgomery) was stealing the Drayton Diamond from said estate.
Incorrectly putting two and two together was Inspector Connor (Lewis Stone), the lead detective on the Mr. X killings. He surmised that whoever stole the Drayton Diamond was also Mr. X.
Later, Inspector Connor would make another mistake. He locked up Sir Christopher Marche (Ralph Forbes) for the police murders because one of his initialed handkerchiefs was found near a dead officer. Nick knew that Marche was innocent, so he did him a solid and provided him with a sworn alibi to get him off. The testimony Nick provided helped Marche escape a murder charge, but Marche couldn't escape the assault charge against him for punching an officer. For that he had to serve ten days in jail, and that's all the time Nick needed to steal Marche's fiance, Jane Frensham (Elizabeth Allan). I'm not saying that was his goal, I'm just saying that's what happened.
Per society rules, Jane had to show gratitude to Nick for helping clear her fiance of a murder charge. Gratitude came in the form of multiple dates and I don't have to tell you the rest.
And as for the Mr. X mystery; not only was it weak, they naturally had to make Nick the hero to make up for his stealing the Drayton Diamond AND to make him worthy of Jane. It was all bollocks.
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If a guy doesn't lose his woman outright, he will lose her unshakable love. What I mean is that if she doesn't fall completely in love with the new guy, she will at least be amorously confused. The ardent love she had for her man before will be reduced to a tepid, ambivalent love.
As the late B. I. G. Said, "Don't leave yo' girl around me, true player for real ask Puff Da-ddy."
In "The Mystery of Mr. X," a man went to jail for ten days, came back, and his fiance was lost to a charming American. But that's not what the movie was about.
"The Mystery of Mr. X" was about a killer who was killing cops in England and leaving his moniker: "Mr. X." He was slick, sneaky, silent, and deadly. He was killing officers with a rapier (a long, thin sword). One of the police he killed was right outside of an estate as Nicholas 'Nick' Revel (Robert Montgomery) was stealing the Drayton Diamond from said estate.
Incorrectly putting two and two together was Inspector Connor (Lewis Stone), the lead detective on the Mr. X killings. He surmised that whoever stole the Drayton Diamond was also Mr. X.
Later, Inspector Connor would make another mistake. He locked up Sir Christopher Marche (Ralph Forbes) for the police murders because one of his initialed handkerchiefs was found near a dead officer. Nick knew that Marche was innocent, so he did him a solid and provided him with a sworn alibi to get him off. The testimony Nick provided helped Marche escape a murder charge, but Marche couldn't escape the assault charge against him for punching an officer. For that he had to serve ten days in jail, and that's all the time Nick needed to steal Marche's fiance, Jane Frensham (Elizabeth Allan). I'm not saying that was his goal, I'm just saying that's what happened.
Per society rules, Jane had to show gratitude to Nick for helping clear her fiance of a murder charge. Gratitude came in the form of multiple dates and I don't have to tell you the rest.
And as for the Mr. X mystery; not only was it weak, they naturally had to make Nick the hero to make up for his stealing the Drayton Diamond AND to make him worthy of Jane. It was all bollocks.
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