1936 mystery-comedy, dir. W. S. van Dyke, William Powell, Myrna Loy:
IMDb /
allmovie. The husband has
deserted his wife, and she wants to track him down.
But now the Code has descended, and certain things just don't get
mentioned any more. There's still room for inventiveness; the family
tyranny may strike me as more unpleasant than funny, but William Law
plays the Chinese character as something more than a menacing
stereotype (even as Sax Rohmer was turning out his second series of
Fu Manchu novels), and one can't help noticing that almost all the
other men here are, if not expressly villains, certainly
self-interested before all else.
I talk about this film further on
Ribbon of Memes.
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