RKO Radio Pictures
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The Lady Consents
Two Great Stars and a Brilliant Cast in a Drama of Reckless Romance and Adventure
Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
- Original title
- The Lady Consents
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Dec 26, 2023 · via TMDB
This doesn't really get off to a very good start. "Michael" (Herbert Marshall) is determined he can ride an unruly stallion - but ends up in the dirt. He offers the horse for sale only for champion sportswoman "Gerry" (Margaret Lindsay) to volunteer. He declines her suggestion, she gets on anyway and ... into the dirt she goes too. Except - of course - it's so abundantly clear that neither actor actually went anywhere near the real horse! That rather sets the tone for this pretty routine drama that is underpinned by a mischievous story of a love triangle between the two and his wife "Anne" (Ann Harding) but is let down by some mediocre writing and precisely no chemistry on screen between anyone - even the horse. The production is basic and the dialogue overly plentiful as the story seems to lose it's way between farce and melodrama. Marshall could be charming, and he does try here, but his theatrical delivery together with the static camerawork and the slightly clunky, episodic, nature of the drama impede it's flow too often to give this any sort of cohesion. Maybe "Anne" thinks he will work it all out of his system, or maybe she just doesn't care about her husband's infidelities and would rather just play snooker. Sadly, I'm not sure I really cared either.
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Ann Harding
Anne Talbot
Herbert Marshall
Dr. Michael J. Talbot
Margaret Lindsay
Gerry Mannerley
Walter Abel
Stanley Ashton
Edward Ellis
Jim Talbot
Hobart Cavanaugh
Mr. Yardley
Ilka Chase
Susan
Mary Gordon
Apple Lady
Paul Porcasi
Joe - Restaurant Proprietor
Van Nest Polglase
Art Direction
Roy Webb
Music Director
Anthony Veiller
Screenplay
Vier Stunden von Elbe 1
Wesele
The Deer Hunter
Yi Yi
Like Water for Chocolate
Hochzeit auf Immenhof
Jellyfish
Ali's Wedding
After Everything
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
Alice's Restaurant
That Old Feeling
The Canterbury Tales
Die Hochzeit meiner Töchter
The Wedding Party
A Girl Cut in Two
Evening
Mein Weg zu dir heißt Liebe
Gujarati Wedding in Goa
Heidi
Journey to Bethlehem
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Westward the Women
Where the Red Fern Grows
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Christmas Shoes
Johnny Belinda
People Like Us
The Assault
Hungry Hearts
Here
Head Full of Honey
The Locket
A Wrinkle in Time
Love Is Strange
Circus World
Won't Back Down
Kid Galahad
The Game of Their Lives
Feb 5, 1936
New York City, New York
Feb 7, 1936
