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Herz am Scheideweg

Originaltitel: The Easiest Way
  • 1931
  • Passed
  • 1 Std. 13 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,3/10
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IHRE BEWERTUNG
Constance Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, and Robert Montgomery in Herz am Scheideweg (1931)
Psychological DramaTragic RomanceDramaRomance

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuLaura from a poor family rejects her boyfriend for a wealthy older man. She falls for a younger journalist, leaves the wealthy man but struggles financially.Laura from a poor family rejects her boyfriend for a wealthy older man. She falls for a younger journalist, leaves the wealthy man but struggles financially.Laura from a poor family rejects her boyfriend for a wealthy older man. She falls for a younger journalist, leaves the wealthy man but struggles financially.

  • Regie
    • Jack Conway
  • Drehbuch
    • Edith Ellis
    • Eugene Walter
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Constance Bennett
    • Adolphe Menjou
    • Robert Montgomery
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,3/10
    682
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Jack Conway
    • Drehbuch
      • Edith Ellis
      • Eugene Walter
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Constance Bennett
      • Adolphe Menjou
      • Robert Montgomery
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    Constance Bennett
    Constance Bennett
    • Laura Murdock
    Adolphe Menjou
    Adolphe Menjou
    • William Brockton
    Robert Montgomery
    Robert Montgomery
    • Jack Madison
    Anita Page
    Anita Page
    • Peg Murdock
    Marjorie Rambeau
    Marjorie Rambeau
    • Elfie St. Clair
    J. Farrell MacDonald
    J. Farrell MacDonald
    • Ben Murdock
    Clara Blandick
    Clara Blandick
    • Agnes Murdock
    Clark Gable
    Clark Gable
    • Nickolas (Nick) Feliki
    Richard Bishop
    • Hotel Clerk
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    Lynton Brent
    Lynton Brent
    • Brockton Associate
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    Noel Francis
    Noel Francis
    • Women at Cook-Out
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    Jack Hanlon
    Jack Hanlon
    • Andy Murdock
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    John Harron
    John Harron
    • Chris Swoboda - Laura's Suitor
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    Dell Henderson
    Dell Henderson
    • Bud Williams
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Hedda Hopper
    Hedda Hopper
    • Mrs. Clara Williams
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    Charles Judels
    Charles Judels
    • Mr. Gensler
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Elizabeth Ann Keever
    • Tillie Murdock
    • (Nicht genannt)
    William H. O'Brien
    William H. O'Brien
    • Alfred - Brockton's Butler
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    • Regie
      • Jack Conway
    • Drehbuch
      • Edith Ellis
      • Eugene Walter
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    Poseidon-3

    The easiest way can make loving someone the hardest.

    The shopgirl-turned-clotheshorse concept was a staple of 1920's a 30's films, with Joan Crawford wringing quite a bit of success out of the formula. Here, Bennett gives it a go in a story that was based on a 1909 stage play. She portrays the eldest of five children living with their parents in a squalid, cramped New York tenement. The father resists working while the mother barely manages to wrangle the kids and put supper on the table. Bennett toils behind the tie counter at a department store until one day she gets the opportunity to pose as a model for advertising artists. She doesn't stop with this modest success and proceeds to hook up with the boss (Menjou), who fixes her up with a fancy apartment and all the jewels and furs she can handle. During this, she aids her family as well, though a few of them reject her for the way she earns her keep. On an extended visit to Colorado, she happens upon handsome young writer Montgomery and quickly falls for him. She decides to give up her lavish "kept" lifestyle and return to work while he is away on assignment, knowing he will be back for her to marry him. But can she take that step backwards? Bennett, one of the highest paid and most popular stars of the era presents an appealing and attractive persona (check out that waist!) She knows that what she's doing is "wrong", yet circumstances seem to prevent her from doing otherwise unless she wants to exist in poverty. Menjou is assured and manipulative in his role. Montgomery is quite fresh and likable for the better part of his screen time. Page appears to great advantage as Bennett's far earthier sister who winds up wed to Gable in one of his very earliest roles. He's handsome though his character is a little self-righteous. Rambeau makes an impression as one of Bennett's sidekicks in the modeling biz who also reaches for the top in the mistress game. Virtually all of the cast members give vivid performances. The opening sequences in the rundown apartment are quite fascinating in their snappy dialogue and depiction of the hard times. Today's audiences will be able to see through the predictable plotting, but the film still holds interest. Though the Hays Office is sometimes blamed for tampering with the material, the 1917 silent version had at least as downbeat an ending as this one does. In fact, if the story were to end any other way than it does, there'd be very little point to it all!
    7planktonrules

    Oh, it's certainly a pre-code picture!

    Regardless of the quality of the story, I felt I had to see "The Easiest Way" because it's one of Clark Gable's earliest films. He plays a supporting character, Nick, a guy far less sophisticated and lacking the trademark mustache.

    Laura (Constance Bennett) lives in a crowded apartment with her trashy family. They're poor and the father is a genial drunk. Because of this background, it's not at all surprising that when she is given a chance to become her boss' mistress, she jumps at the chance. After all, he's loaded and pampers her like she's never been pampered before! But folks who know her realize what sort of a woman she is, particularly her brother-in-law, Nick. He's wise to the trampy sort of life she leads.

    A bit later, when Laura is on vacation out west, she meets a nice- guy reporter, Johnny (Robert Montgomery). He's handsome, sweet and you assume they'll soon marry---and he knows what sort of woman she was. However, this is only about half-way through the film, so you know IF there's going to be a happily ever after, it will have to come after a few plot twists!

    This film is a great example of the so-called 'Pre-Code' and its sensibilities. Although most folks today think all the movies made back in the good 'ol days were very prudish, this was NOT the case before mid-1934. In the early 30s, studios made all sorts of very adult films with plots involving prostitutes, abortion, fornication and even, occasionally, nudity and cursing. While the films sometimes didn't always SAY that is what was going on, it was always heavily implied and the adults in the audience know the score. Here in "The Easiest Way", words like 'mistress', 'prostitute' or even that she's sleeping with the suave boss (Adolph Menjou)...but it's clearly happening! On top of that, he no-good dad doesn't mind...he LIKES the money she can send home! Welcome to the pre-code era, folks!

    So the important question about all this is whether or not the film is any good. If you're watching it for Gable like I was, don't expect too much from him. His role is very limited and he clearly is just a contract actor in this film. As for the film itself, its quite good. The only negative, and I actually liked this, was that the ending is very vague--so if you're looking for a perfect, formulaic sort of picture, this ain't it!
    drednm

    Remarkable Film--Except for the Ending

    Wonderful story ruined by Hays Office has fabulous Constance Bennett escaping her New York slum upbringing by becoming a model and mistress to Adolphe Menjou. All is well until she runs into reporter Robert Montgomery in Colorado Springs (the Wild West in 1931). He's off to South America and asks Bennett to be good and wait for him. Well that lasts about a month. She runs out of money and goes back to Menjou. Better than it sounds until the hack ending. Solid performances by the stars, especially Bennett, and ably supported by Anita Page, Marjorie Rambeau, Clark Gable (his first MGM film), J. Farrell MacDonald, Clara Blandick, Jack Hanlon (as the sullen brother), and Hedda Hopper. The opening tenement scene is just wonderful. Gable is dynamic is his first big part. Rambeau is always terrific. Page is quite good in a supporting role. Menjou is slimy, but Constance Bennett is front and center and mesmerizing. She was a major star of her time--too bad she's mostly forgotten now.
    10Ron Oliver

    Pre-Code Soap Suds

    A beautiful young model finds THE EASIEST WAY to support her needy family is to become a rich man's mistress -- until she falls in love with an energetic reporter.

    This little film is strictly soap opera, but it's well presented and makes a pleasant diversion. The production values are good, especially in the opening sequence which reveals the inside of a tenement flat, and causes the viewer to appreciate the trouble MGM expended on even its small pictures.

    Beautiful Constance Bennett is very convincing as a woman who frankly admits her moral standing -- until true love complicates everything. Urbane Adolphe Menjou, as the rich businessman who controls Bennett, is slightly more sympathetic than usual in a role he could probably have played in his sleep. And Robert Montgomery gives his patented friendly portrayal as the steadfast fellow who earnestly loves Bennett -- until he is told the truth of her situation.

    A fine supporting cast helps the proceedings: tough-talking Marjorie Rambeau as an aging model out to squeeze every penny possible from the male animal; lazy J. Farrell MacDonald & careworn Clara Blandick as Bennett's poor parents; blonde Anita Page as Bennett's lively younger sister; and sturdy Clark Gable, as Page's laundryman boyfriend, who would eventually supplant Montgomery as MGM's favorite heartthrob.

    Movie mavens will recognize jovial Dell Henderson and stately Hedda Hopper, both uncredited as Bennett's Colorado hosts.
    7Handlinghandel

    Racy and Downbeat

    Constance Bennett stars as a lower class girl who takes the easy way. That is, she becomes a kept women. We see her in beautiful gown, in jewels, in furs. Adolph Menjou is footing the bill.

    Then she meets newspaperman Robert Montgomery and wants to give it all up for true love. I won't reveal the ending. But it's not an especially happy one, and three cheers to Hollywood for not selling out.

    A few comments on the perfumers: . Robert Montgomery is not someone I can imagine anyone's throwing over even a modest income for.

    . Clark Gable has a fairly small role here. He plays, with of course no mustache, Bennett's proper working class and disapproving brother-in-law.

    . Bennett is chic as she always is. But she isn't photographed in a faltering manner. Her profile is rather flat. She appears to have an overbite and her false eyelashes seem apparent. Maybe the director of photography and she did not get on well.

    . The brilliant Marjorie Rameau turns in the earliest of her fine performances that I have seen. She plays another kept woman. When Bennett is down on her luck and asks for a loan, she sends her packing. But when her daddy dies, she comes to Bennett for money and is given it.

    Her performance is in a different realm from that of any of the other players in this movie.

    Bennett is a strangely forgotten star of early movies. Rambeau is a sadly underrated actress, whose career spanned several decades.

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      Laura's overdue hotel bill of $62.50 would equate to over $1,200 in 2022.
    • Patzer
      While on a trail ride in Colorado, Jack invites Laura to take in his pet view. The view is of Yosemite in California.
    • Zitate

      Jack Madison: You know, I may be gone two, maybe three months. What are you going to do? Are you going to be all right?

      Laura Murdock: Mmm-hmm. I'll go back to my old job, commercial posing.

      Jack Madison: Not one of these artists that, eh...

      Laura Murdock: No. Nothing worse than undies, darling.

    • Alternative Versionen
      The scene where Elfie enters Laura's father's house, (47 minutes), Elfie is played by Marjorie Rambeau and she is wearing a chinchilla trimmed coat. I have two film still photographs showing Marie Prevost as Elfie wearing a fox trimmed coat and a different hat. Laura is wearing exactly the same outfit and the set on which it was filmed is exactly the same.
    • Verbindungen
      Alternate-language version of Quand on est belle (1932)
    • Soundtracks
      The Sidewalks of New York
      (1894) (uncredited)

      Music by Charles Lawlor

      Played as background music in the opening scene

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 7. Februar 1931 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • The Easiest Way
    • Drehorte
      • Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, Kalifornien, USA
    • Produktionsfirma
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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