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The Animal Kingdom

  • 1932
  • Approved
  • 1 Std. 25 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,3/10
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IHRE BEWERTUNG
Leslie Howard and Ann Harding in The Animal Kingdom (1932)
ComedyDramaRomance

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuBased on a play by Philip Barry, this sophisticated comedy is about a man trying to justify his love for both his wife and his mistress.Based on a play by Philip Barry, this sophisticated comedy is about a man trying to justify his love for both his wife and his mistress.Based on a play by Philip Barry, this sophisticated comedy is about a man trying to justify his love for both his wife and his mistress.

  • Regie
    • Edward H. Griffith
    • George Cukor
  • Drehbuch
    • Horace Jackson
    • Philip Barry
    • Edward H. Griffith
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Ann Harding
    • Leslie Howard
    • Myrna Loy
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,3/10
    1392
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Edward H. Griffith
      • George Cukor
    • Drehbuch
      • Horace Jackson
      • Philip Barry
      • Edward H. Griffith
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Ann Harding
      • Leslie Howard
      • Myrna Loy
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    • 8Kritische Rezensionen
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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    Ann Harding
    Ann Harding
    • Daisy
    Leslie Howard
    Leslie Howard
    • Tom
    Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy
    • Cecelia
    William Gargan
    William Gargan
    • Regan
    Neil Hamilton
    Neil Hamilton
    • Owen
    Ilka Chase
    Ilka Chase
    • Grace
    Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson
    • Rufus
    Leni Stengel
    Leni Stengel
    • Franc
    Don Dillaway
    Don Dillaway
    • Joe
    Cecil Arden
    • Additional Cast
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Ralph Bard
    • Additional Cast
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Henry A. Barrows
    • Partygoer
    • (Nicht genannt)
    William Begg
    William Begg
    • Partygoer
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Curtis Benton
    • Radio Announcer
    • (Synchronisation)
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    Lorena Carr
    • Partygoer
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Oliver Cross
    • Partygoer
    • (Nicht genannt)
    William B. Davidson
    William B. Davidson
    • Grace's Husband
    • (Nicht genannt)
    George DeNormand
    George DeNormand
    • Additional Cast
    • (Nicht genannt)
    • Regie
      • Edward H. Griffith
      • George Cukor
    • Drehbuch
      • Horace Jackson
      • Philip Barry
      • Edward H. Griffith
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    10SHAWFAN

    A great but little known movie

    Previous reviewers have summarized the plot well. Likewise its pre-code frankness. But what makes this movie most interesting is the unusual context the various stars find themselves in. Think playwright Phillip Barry. What comes to mind: "The Philadelphia Story." Think Leslie Howard: "Pygmalion" and "Gone with the Wind." Think Myrna Loy: the "Thin Man" series. Think William Gargan: many later movies. Notice that Myrna Loy, later such an important star, has to take third billing after Ann Harding. That certainly wouldn't have been the case just a few years later. Good to see Ilka Chase in a screen role. I thought Howard and Loy superb in their acting, probably among the best work they ever did. Under the banal everyday polite surface of the dialogue and events little by little the characters expose themselves: Loy as the manipulative femme fatal and Howard as the man for whom the light begins slowly to turn on. For those whom the title puzzled, I caught Howard saying at one point, "We're just members of the animal kingdom."

    Compare this film to Platinum Blonde of 1931 starring Jean Harlow. My IMDb review summarizes the parallels between these two films.
    7blanche-2

    Good pre-code

    Leslie Howard, Ann Harding, and Myrna Loy are all members of "The Animal Kingdom" in this 1932 film based on the play by Phillip Barry. Barry in his way was a transitional playwright - he wrote about the upper class, usually negatively, but always gave a nod to the lower class - they were the ones that had more fun. Just a little bit later, plays about the upper class would go by the wayside for plays about the working class - Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing - as America moved through the depression.

    Leslie Howard plays a member of said upper class who has engaged in a Bohemian lifestyle, living with an intelligent artist (Harding). They have a no attachment, open relationship, and he takes her at her word and gets himself engaged to a gorgeous, wealthy young woman (Myrna Loy) just as Harding decides she wants to settle down and have a family. She accepts his decision, but not his offer of continuing friendship.

    There is a line about the "animal kingdom" in the film, but I prefer to think the title has to do with baser instincts. If Howard passionately desired Ann Harding, he wouldn't have wanted to be friends - and it's her desire of him that makes her reject his "just friends" suggestion. Let's face facts - Loy turns him on and knows it. In fact, she uses sex as a manipulative weapon, and he's putty in her hands. It's more blatant in this film than, say, "Harriet Craig" which was done under the code - but the power of sex is there.

    Of course, a relationship based on sexual desire and nothing else eventually grows tired, and Howard finds himself going back to talk with Harding and spend time with her. She smartly keeps running. Clearly, Howard is a man who wants to have his cake and eat it, too.

    Harding was an interesting leading woman - she was attractive but not beautiful and had a very low, distinctive speaking voice. She came from the Broadway stage, and her heyday in films was through the mid-thirties, though she worked consistently in films and television until the mid-60s. As was the case back then, at 31 years of age, her time as a leading lady was drawing to a close, and soon would be turned over to people like the younger Loy. Her performance in "The Animal Kingdom" is a very honest one. Loy is absolutely ravishing and wears beautiful clothes. She essays the part of the glamorous wife beautifully, reminiscent of Gene Tierney later on with the ultra-feminine facade hiding the steel underneath. Howard is handsome and thoughtful in the lead, and one can see it slowly occurring to him that he made a mistake.

    Very good.
    10morrisonhimself

    Writing, acting, directing create an excellent domestic drama

    Once I actually spoke to Ann Harding on the telephone, but, alas, I didn't really know who she was. Yes, it was late in her life and early in mine, but if I had had the slightest idea what an extraordinary actress she had been, I would have been more forward, would have tried to spend time talking with her in person.

    I knew the name. She had been a star. But now having seen her in "The Animal Kingdom," I am simply astonished at her ability.

    In fact the entire cast is compelling. Even other people of whom I knew nothing or very little were impossible to look away from.

    For example, "Franc," played by Leni Stengel, was such a strong, and well-written, character, she was never over-shadowed even by the major characters. "Joe," played by Don Dillaway, was another, and I had never heard of either actor before. Now I want to see everything they ever appeared in. The two actors were remarkable performers, contributing great talent to an already overwhelmingly talented cast.

    Myrna Loy played a strong and attractive "society lady," but her character was different from the kind she is known for and gave her a chance to demonstrate she too was one fine actress, capable of variety, and not just a pretty face.

    Leslie Howard played, as it seemed he so often did, a rather weak character, but one capable of greatness, or at least potentially of strength.

    William Gargan was wonderful as a supposed-to-be-servant who just didn't "know his place." I've never seen him in this type of role, and he was just captivating.

    But Ann Harding stole it all.

    She was, of course, beautiful, but her mannerisms and gestures, under played, just proved definitely that she was an actress, and an actress of power.

    Horace Jackson's script is based on a Philip Barry play so perhaps credit for the dialogue belongs mostly to Barry, but it's intelligent and entices an audience into sticking with everything happening on the screen, even though the actual story is rather sad. It's about misdirected desires, and sacrifices people really shouldn't make.

    "The Animal Kingdom" is a good movie, one I recommend, and one I am grateful to Turner Classic Movies for presenting on 9 December 2016. It is and has much more than the one-sentence description found in TV listings. It is much more than a soap opera. It is a strong drama beautifully acted and written, and deserving of serious attention.
    7ilprofessore-1

    Two Loves Have I

    One of the great pleasures of being able to see these talky pre-Code films so many years after the fact is that they offer us a photographic record of what the stylized Broadway theater of the Twenties and Thirties was like--lots of witty and heart-felt dialogue as beautiful people move from chair to sofa, drink champagne and cocktails, and occasionally lean against a mantel piece to say something profound or moving. No one back in the Thirties seemed to find it odd then that two of the principle characters, father and son, upper-class American inhabitants of Connecticut, were played by Englishmen-- Henry Stephenson and Leslie Howard. It was an accepted convention that all people with money sounded English. In this story, Howard, the charming but weak idealist he was to play again and again, is torn between his love of two stronger women: Ann Harding, the bohemian painter, and Myrna Loy, the ambitious society bride. Harding chooses to plays the role correctly (in my opinion) as more of a Vassar girl dilettante, the sort that Mary McCarthy was to satirize, than a starving Greenwich Village bohemian, and Myrna Loy is the beautiful but manipulative rich girl out to trap her man into living a secure and comfortable life. The vastly underrated Phillip Barry, whose play this film adapted, was an excellent chronicler of upper middle-class American life as in was once lived in the Depression. He has a great deal of empathy for his characters and enormous skill as a dramatist. His greatest triumph was to be a vehicle Kate Hepburn commissioned a few years later, The Philadelphia Story, but this earlier play introduces many of the social themes he was to write about in all his plays. As always, Barry wrote demanding parts for women. Myrna Loy (who was soon to be Nora in the Thin Man series) never again had a role that demanded so much of her. She is absolutely perfect. The film produced by David Selznick was an enormous flop in its day, but it's wonderful to have it around now.
    7midnitecoaster

    very raw

    very good movie that the censors couldn't destroy. amazing for it's blatantly adult themes in 1932. the story hasn't aged one bit. lesile howard is brilliant in his role. i saw this on tv one night and searched for half a year to figure out what it was called. fantastic.

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      Considered lost for many years. In the early '80s film historian Ron Haver was searching for missing material for the restoration of Ein neuer Stern am Himmel (1954) when he came across a long-forgotten print and negative in the Warner Bros. vaults. The studio had purchased the remake rights for this film from RKO sometime in the mid-'40s and, due to unreliable bookkeeping, misplaced the print and negative in its vaults.
    • Patzer
      (around 1h 18 mins) Tom and Cecelia are sitting shoulder-to-shoulder at a dining table that has a floral centerpiece, and they both have glasses of wine. There's a camera angle change, and when Cecelia leans back in her chair, Tom is holding his glass, but Ci's glass and the centerpiece are gone.
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      Daisy Sage: Behold, the bridegroom cometh. And no oil for my lamp, as usual. A foolish virgin me. Oh, foolish anyway.

    • Verbindungen
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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 28. Dezember 1932 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • The Woman in His House
    • Drehorte
      • RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA(Studio)
    • Produktionsfirma
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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