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Turn Back the Clock

  • 1933
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 19min
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6,7/10
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Lee Tracy in Turn Back the Clock (1933)
Joe and Mary barely get by with their tobacco store. After an old friend returns now married to wealthy Elvina, Joe wishes he married her instead when he had the chance. Will he be happy when his wish comes true?
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueJoe and Mary barely get by with their tobacco store. After an old friend returns now married to wealthy Elvina, Joe wishes he married her instead when he had the chance. Will he be happy whe... Tout lireJoe and Mary barely get by with their tobacco store. After an old friend returns now married to wealthy Elvina, Joe wishes he married her instead when he had the chance. Will he be happy when his wish comes true?Joe and Mary barely get by with their tobacco store. After an old friend returns now married to wealthy Elvina, Joe wishes he married her instead when he had the chance. Will he be happy when his wish comes true?

  • Réalisation
    • Edgar Selwyn
  • Scénario
    • Edgar Selwyn
    • Ben Hecht
  • Casting principal
    • Lee Tracy
    • Mae Clarke
    • Otto Kruger
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  • NOTE IMDb
    6,7/10
    615
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    • Réalisation
      • Edgar Selwyn
    • Scénario
      • Edgar Selwyn
      • Ben Hecht
    • Casting principal
      • Lee Tracy
      • Mae Clarke
      • Otto Kruger
    • 24avis d'utilisateurs
    • 9avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Récompenses
      • 2 victoires au total

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    Lee Tracy
    Lee Tracy
    • Joe Gimlet
    Mae Clarke
    Mae Clarke
    • Mary Gimlet…
    Otto Kruger
    Otto Kruger
    • Ted Wright
    George Barbier
    George Barbier
    • Pete Evans
    Peggy Shannon
    Peggy Shannon
    • Elvina Wright…
    C. Henry Gordon
    C. Henry Gordon
    • Dave Holmes
    Clara Blandick
    Clara Blandick
    • Joe's Mother
    Ernie Adams
    Ernie Adams
    • Reporter
    • (non crédité)
    Norman Ainsley
    • Joe's Valet
    • (non crédité)
    Ernie Alexander
    • Wedding Guest
    • (non crédité)
    Hooper Atchley
    Hooper Atchley
    • 1925 Spokesman
    • (non crédité)
    Symona Boniface
    Symona Boniface
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (non crédité)
    Don Brodie
    Don Brodie
    • Reporter
    • (non crédité)
    William Burress
    William Burress
    • Mr. Cradwell - Drug Store Proprietor
    • (non crédité)
    Ruth Cherrington
    Ruth Cherrington
    • Wedding Guest
    • (non crédité)
    Corky
    • Effie the Dog
    • (non crédité)
    Nell Craig
    Nell Craig
    • Nurse
    • (non crédité)
    Lester Dorr
    Lester Dorr
    • Joe's Aide
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Edgar Selwyn
    • Scénario
      • Edgar Selwyn
      • Ben Hecht
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    Michael_Elliott

    Decent Fantasy Film

    Turn Back the Clock (1933)

    *** (out of 4)

    Minor film about married couple Joe (Lee Tracy) and Mary (Mae Clarke) who run a partially successful cigar shop but one night they get into a heated argument about whether or not they should invest their life savings in the stock market. Joe gets upset because years earlier he could have become rich by investing but Mary wouldn't let him and the same thing seems to be happening. The husband leaves the house drunk and gets struck by a car and he gets his wish by getting to re-live the past twenty years. TURN BACK THE CLOCK has been called an early version of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and there's no question that this does share some connections with the Capra film but this here is still far from reaching a great level. I think the biggest problem I had with the film was that when Tracy goes back to re-live his life, he's well aware of everything that's going on and this allows him to make all the right decisions. I really didn't care about him knowing everything that was going to happen because he had already lived it because these scenes were often played for laughs and I didn't think the comedy worked. Still, this is a fairly entertaining fantasy and I liked how they threw in real events to tell the story including the stock market crash of 1929. Tracy is pretty good in the lead role, although his comedy bits aren't all that good. Clarke, best known for her work in FRANKENSTEIN, is good as the wife and Otto Kruger is very good in his scenes as the friend. The Three Stooges even have a small cameo. I did like the twist that happened towards the end of the movie with our main character and his alternate life. Fans of 30's cinema should enjoy this one even if it has some flaws.
    81930s_Time_Machine

    The Wizard of Oz for grown-ups?

    It's not just because both Aunt Em and Uncle Henry from THE WIZARD OF OZ appear in this, the message: to be grateful for what you've got, is also the message of this fabulous 'if only you could re-live your life again' story.

    I'd generally avoid anything with Lee Tracy in like the plague - I find him the most annoying actor of all time but in this he's surprisingly ok. Under the superb direction of Edgar Selwyn, Mr Tracy's usual crass obnoxiousness is completely transformed into a reasonably sympathetic and likeable character. The production of this from MGM is excellent - Edgar Selwyn is perhaps forgotten about these days but virtually all his films he made in the early thirties are brilliant. He also wrote many of them as well - for this film, he co-wrote it with possibly Hollywood's best writer, Ben Hecht.

    Particularly in 1933, people might have wished that they could re-live their lives more so than other years. This film therefore, with its upbeat optimistic message would have been particularly poignant for its audience struggling through The Depression. Watched today it gives us a real sense of what Americans wanted to be told, what comforting reassurances they liked to hear as FDR took over the reins at the height - or rather lowest point of The Depression.

    If BACK TO THE FUTURE is one of your favourite films (which of course it should be) then you should enjoy this 1930s take on that theme. Vastly underrated Edgar Selwyn gives us almost as much fun as Zemeckis did fifty years later but being from the early thirties there's a touch of cynicism there too. Although you'd normally associate an attack on snobbery, class division, greed and the exploitation of the ordinary working man with Warner Brothers, all that's included in this as Joe, our hero has the enviable but ultimately unenviable challenge of being wealthy. Fortunately for most of that unfortunate 1933 audience, he learns that love not wealth is the key to happiness To end with an appropriate few words from The Beatles: Money Can't Buy Me Love.
    10Ron Oliver

    Lee Tracy Struts His Stuff

    A middle-aged shopkeeper is given the chance to TURN BACK THE CLOCK and see what his life would have been like had he made other choices when young.

    Human dynamo Lee Tracy animates this whimsical fantasy about second chances. (Somewhat ironic, in that a `second chance' was exactly what MGM would not give Tracy after his spectacular fall from grace in 1934.) This was one of 5 films which Tracy would make for MGM in a very busy 1933, his total output at the Studio. As always, he energizes his every scene. Always engaging & enjoyable to watch, it is a shame that he is almost forgotten today.

    Costars Clara Blandick (mother), Mae Clarke (wife), George Barbier (father-in-law), and Otto Kruger (rich friend) all provide very competent assistance, but this is really Tracy's film all the way.

    Movie mavens will spot uncredited performances by Charley Grapewin as Tracy's boyhood doctor, and The Three Stooges (Moe & Curly Howard and Larry Fine), playing it straight as singers at Tracy's wedding.

    Notice the fine attention to detail which MGM gives the shots of Tracy's hometown - the busy streets and authentic-looking buildings. It was this high level of production value - even for a `B' picture such as this - which was one of the Studio's hallmarks.
    6moonspinner55

    Well-mounted fantasy with a cameo by The Three Stooges!

    This is the type of fantasy Frank Capra put his stamp on just a few years later. It stars Lee Tracy as a working-class guy who begins to regret his humble life after meeting up with old friends who have become wealthy; he gets his chance to go back in time and live his life over again. Premise has since been used time and again, but here it's given a surprisingly fresh and clear-eyed take. Tracy is the only acting liability among the performers(he's too broad for a subtle picture like this one). It's well-paced, amusing, shies away from mushy sentimentality, and features The Three Stooges--unbilled in a cameo as wedding singers!
    9clanciai

    Virtuoso story construction resulting in a marvel of realistic imagination.

    This is worth seeing for its amazing story, which although fantastic is completely logical all the way. It's Ben Hecht, of course, and at his best, working together with Edgar Selwyn to produce a cinematic wonder of plot and imagination, playing with destiny and accomplishing a wonder of plausibility in spite of its character of total conjecture.

    The only problem of the film is Lee Tracy's acting, which is rather exhausting, since he is constantly overdoing it. Maybe that was the fashion of actors in the early 30s, but today it's just annoying.

    The other actors are doing alright, especially the two ladies and Otto Kruger, but it's the plot that is the main thing of this film. Who hasn't one time or another dreamt of reliving one's life and doing it over again but better? That's what happens to Joe Gimlet, he gets an alternative chance and really makes the best of it and everything he wanted to do different, and still it all goes wrong...

    The most ingenious thing about the story construction is how it is combined with the story he left behind, he meets the same people but under different circumstances and making different careers, and so in the end he finds his best friend, president of the National Bank, in his own original position as a petty shop owner.

    Ben Hecht was in his prime throughout the 30s, beginning with "Front Page", bringing forth a flood of script masterpieces, until he was allowed to make a film of his own, "The Specter of the Rose", an ambitious art film of ballet, very much ahead of its time, which flopped, so he was never allowed to make another movie. Still he continued writing excellent scripts, but his sharpest edge was lost.

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      Turn Back the Clock (1933) was the first film in which then known as "Ted Healy's Stooges"--Moe Howard, Jerry Howard (later known as Curly Howard), and Larry Fine--appeared together, but not as The Three Stooges. They sing "Sweet Adeline." Joe tells them to sing "something lively"; Larry volunteers that they know "My Old Kentucky Home." Forgetting the difference in years while drunk, Joe requests the Stooges sing "Tony's Wife" (a pop song from 1933), which the Stooges are unfamiliar with; it's Moe then asks "Tony's wife? Who is she?" Although they are not credited as the Three Stooges (indeed, they receive no screen credit at all), this marks the first time the trio appeared as a group on film without their former leader, Ted Healy. They would launch their long-running film-shorts career a few months later.
    • Gaffes
      President Woodrow Wilson's letter asking for Joe Gimlet's resignation misspells his last name as "Gimlett."
    • Citations

      Ted Wright: Oh, wait 'til I tell you about the time Joe and I made a blind date with two girls that called at the drug store.

      Joe Gimlet: You mean the Chippeway twins.

      Ted Wright: Ha-ha. The Chippeway twins. We called them Africans and they turned out to be Indians.

    • Connexions
      Featured in We Haven't Really Met Properly...: Clara Blandick as Auntie Em (2005)
    • Bandes originales
      A Hot Time in the Old Town
      (1896) (uncredited)

      Music by Theodore A. Metz

      Whistled by Lee Tracy

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    • Date de sortie
      • 25 août 1933 (États-Unis)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Site officiel
      • YouTube - Video
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Det perfekta brottet
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, Californie, États-Unis(Studio)
    • Société de production
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Durée
      1 heure 19 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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