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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780783110301 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0783110308 Label: Hbo Home Video Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Release Date: July 20, 1999 Running Time: 75 minutes Sales Rank: 59053 Studio: Hbo Home Video
Rating: - Love or Morality?
Marriage is never easy, and it is especially difficult if the couple has money problems. Add to the fact that the man (Joel McCrea) comes from a family that looks down upon wives with jobs but expects all the finest in life, and you have Splendor. Phyllis Lorrimore (Miriam Hopkins) wants to make the marraige work despite her husband's high expectations, but feels helpless and pressured by his family. When a rich friend (Paul Cavanagh) comes along and offers to help Mr. Lorrimore in return for Phyllis' companionship, she has a tough decision to make. She can risk losing her husband due to financial ... Read More
Rating: - FROM RICHES TO RAGS.
A very dated but rather fascinating study of the power of wealth and contentment which is eventually found at the "bottom of the ladder". This was one of Sam Goldwyn's "cheeky" prestigious films that - in the midst of the Great Depression - lectured the hoi polloi on both the virtues of marital fidelity and genteel poverty! Matriachal Mrs. Lorrimore, head of the the once wealthy Lorrimore clan, schemes to save the family fortunes by organising a "profitable marriage". Joel McCrea is infinitely wholesome as usual, but the picture is practically saved - in a large part, anyway - by the playing of Miriam ... Read More
