Riptide
MGM/UA (1934)
Romance
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IMDB   6.3
1 hr 32 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Norma Shearer Lady Mary Rexford
Robert Montgomery Tommie Trent
Herbert Marshall Lord Philip Rexford
Mrs. Patrick Campbell Aunt Hetty Riversleigh
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher Erskine
Ralph Forbes David Fenwick
Lilyan Tashman Sylvia Wilson
Arthur Jarrett Percy
Earl Oxford Freddie Gray
Helen Jerome Eddy Celeste
George K. Arthur Bertie Davis
Marilyn Spinner Pamela Rexford
Phyllis Coghlan Nurse Clark
Howard Chaldecott Albert Ransome
Halliwell Hobbes Bollard
Director
Edmund Goulding
Producer Irving Thalberg
Writer Edmund Goulding
Ben Hecht
Charles MacArthur

Park Avenue socialite Mary (Norma Shearer) and staid English nobleman, Lord Phillip Rexford (Herbert Marshall) are married as a lark, but she is very happy for several years with her husband and child. But on a trip to the Riviera she meets again an old flame, Tommie Treal (Robert Montgomery), and under the spell of the sea breezes and the Mediterranean moon (a semi-excuse for adultery to keep Queen Norma's image clean, as this was a post-Production Code film), Mary is the "innocent" victim of a romantic escapade that makes the headlines and the scandal sheets. None of Mary's explanations can soothe Lord Phillip, reaping the fallout of marrying "down", and his cold indifference drives Mary, who fights against it (a minor and feeble struggle at best), closer to Tommie. As the two lovers surrender to their ardor, Lord R. learns from his secretary that Mary had been telling the truth, and he calls for her to join him in Cannes with a clean slate. O.K, but as Chief Sky Eagle told John Wayne in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), "too late, Nathan, toooooo late."
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