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Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Directed by Dorothy Arzner
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Overview
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Rated NR | Length 83 minutes
Actors
Sylvia Sidney | Fredric March | Adrianne Allen | Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher | George Irving | Esther Howard | Florence Britton | Charles Coleman | Cary Grant | Kent Taylor | Robert Greig | Ernie Adams | Mildred Boyd | Edna Callahan | Leonard Carey | Harry Cording | Milla Davenport | Neal Dodd | Jay Eaton | Bill Elliott | Mary Halsey | Theresa Harris | Amo Ingraham | LeRoy Mason | Edwin Maxwell | Edmund Mortimer | William H. O'Brien | Dennis O'Keefe | Tom Ricketts | Irene Robeson | Pat Somerset | Harry Strang | Gordon Westcott
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/07/2019 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
This is the scheduled film for Chicago Film Society tonight at NEIU. Library didn’t have it but found a very nice upload on YT. Decided to fire it up to see if it was worth the trek to NEIU to view in 35mm. So this is listed as a comedy drama but I don’t find any comedy in this depressing tale of an alcoholic and his failed marriage. I suppose the merits of this fall into the cautionary tale category. It starts light and slightly fun like “ho ho drinking is fun” until it moves into this sad drama of “yeah drinking is bad but so what if it destroys everything around me I will continue drinking.”
And given how the film ends this isn’t something I care to view in a theater, 35mm or not.
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