Recaptured Love

1930 film

  • July 8, 1930 (1930-07-08)
Running time
77 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Recaptured Love is a 1930 early talkie pre-Code musical drama film based on the play Misdeal by Basil Woon about a man who experiences a mid life crisis that results in his divorce. It stars Belle Bennett and John Halliday.

Plot

A 50-year-old married man goes with his wife and son to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man and becomes jealous.

Cast

  • Belle Bennett as Helen Parr
  • John Halliday as Brentwood Parr
  • Dorothy Burgess as Peggy Price
  • Richard Tucker as Rawlings
  • Junior Durkin as Henry Parr
  • Brooks Benedict as Pat

Preservation

The film survives complete. It was transferred on to 16mm film by Associated Artists Productions in 1966 and shown on television. A 16mm copy is housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.[1] It is also preserved in the Library of Congress collection.[2]

External links

  • Recaptured Love (1930) at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata

References

  1. ^ Noted: Recaptured Love Archived December 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, wisconsinhistory.org; accessed July 23, 2015.
  2. ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.150 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
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