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Hot Saturday is neat little pre-code drama with one of Cary Grant's earliest starring roles. Grant is top-billed but the center of the film is actually Nancy Carroll, an enormously popular young actress in the first years of the talkies, 1929-1931 but apparently already starting to slip in 1932 being second-billed to a newcomer.

Carroll is a pretty bank clerk whom all the local boys are crazy about, including scandalous young heir Cary Grant as Romer Sheffield (aren't all Sheffields in old movies wealthy?), who brings out of town girls in to stay at his estate for weeks at a time. When Cary invites the local young people to his home on the lake for a party, they all happily agree even though he is quite infamous among the older folks. Carroll is escorted by local boy Edward Woods. who turns into quite a leech on private boat ride and when Nancy won't come across, abandons her on the other side of the lake. Nancy ends up walking some distance and the nearest home just so happens to be Cary's estate. When she is seen by her trampy rival Lilan Bond coming home in Grant's car, the jealous bitch starts a rumor that spreads like wildfire that Nancy spent the night alone with Cary, a rumor that causes Nancy to lose her job and threatens her long, chaste romance with Randolph Scott.

This little melodrama has an excellent cast (except for Bond, whose line readings are flat) that makes the slim story interesting. Nancy Carroll is cute and does very well with her role, making her part sympathetic at all times but she is saddled with a terrible hairstyle and has on way too much makeup. Cary Grant is excellent as the free-loving hedonist to whom marriage is a no-no but he is surprisingly topped in sex appeal by his friend Randolph Scott as the decent and shy semi-beau of Carroll's. Edward Woods is very effective as the All American pal who turns out to be a major creep and there's a very good performance from Jane Darwell as Nancy's bossy and prudish mother. Hot Saturday is not a classic but it definitely deserves a look if you enjoy pre-codes.

Small town 'nice' girl (Nancy Carroll) becomes victim of rumors that she spent the night with wealthy playboy (Cary Grant). Because of this she loses her job and her boyfriend (Randolph Scott). Decent Pre-Coder with some risqué subject matter. Love the funny scene where Nancy Carroll wrestles her younger sister and removes her underwear. Carroll is cute and has good chemistry with Grant. Cary's very charming even this early in his career. Scott's fine, too. Jane Darwell plays Carroll's shrewish mother. Nice production and small town atmosphere. I saw this on TCM and the print is exceptionally good for a movie this old.

Newcomer Cary Grant was paired with Paramount star Nancy Carroll in Hot Saturday, a film which is most dated, but still packs quite a punch. Nancy Carroll's stardom was beginning to slip while Cary as we know was fast on the rise.

Hot Saturday however is about gossip, something that will eternally be with us. But happy to say some people's attitudes have definitely changed for the better. Nancy Carroll would not be fired today from her job at a bank because of her private life.

Carroll's a popular girl with all the young men of her town, but she's engaged to stalwart Randolph Scott who's a promising young engineer. One of her fellow co-workers at the bank Edward Wood tries to put the moves on her, but she won't give him a tumble. It's he who starts a nasty rumor about Carroll and the town playboy Cary Grant who is guilty of nothing more than offering her a ride home in his car after she ran off from Woods.

Depending on where you are from malicious gossip will probably not have the effect it does on Nancy Carroll. Still it can damage one. Years ago in a former place of work and we're talking now about the 1970s I recall in my office there was a section known as the 'poison pond'. It was where a few women who had nothing else to do but gossip about everything and everyone else around. No escaped their malicious tongues and something like what happens to Nancy Carroll would have been grist for that mill for a month.

Thank God people have a more live and let live attitude, but gossip is still a perennial problem and Hot Saturday deals nicely with it.

In small town America, everyone knows everyone else's business, and gossip flies fast. That's why bank teller Nancy Carroll is careful to go out in a big group and never stay out too late. She's usually glad to have a good reputation; but when she has a bad day at the office and her parents won't stop fighting, she doesn't care anymore. She goes out in a big group one Saturday night, but she openly flirts with notorious playboy Cary Grant. When her escort takes her out on the lake for some private time, she wiggles free and runs off to be with Cary instead! Do you think that'll send the gossip mill running?

Although he gets a higher billing, Randolph Scott has a much smaller part than Cary Grant. Cary is the "ungettable get" with tons of money and nothing to do. His pre-stardom makeup makes him look very weird, however, and if you look closely you can get a glimpse of his old teeth. When Scottie McScottie Pants comes on the scene, he's just gorgeous. Messy hair flopping in his face, smiles for miles, and a passion for geology even though there's no money in it. He's got my vote! But who would you pick? Watch this old movie for some pre-Code giggles and a very old-fashioned premise. Nancy Carroll is just as cute as it gets; I wonder why didn't become as big a star as her contemporaries like Carole Lombard or Jean Harlow.

Ruth (Nancy Carroll) is a bank clerk in a small town where the only diversion for young adults is a dance hall named Willow Springs outside of town. Ruth is pursued by a number of young men, including a wealthy playboy, Romer Sheffield (Cary Grant). She is very successful at keeping them all at arm's length, though she occasionally enjoys tempting them.

After Ruth returns home later than usual, the town's rumor mill--spurred by rival Eva--has a heyday. With her reputation ruined, Ruth makes some choices that are life-altering.

The music that accompanies the opening credits might lead the viewer to expect a madcap comedy. It is nothing of the sort. It is a scathing depiction of small-town society. However, the ending--which is, if nothing else, confusing--suggests that the film is (also) a cautionary tale. Whichever way you interpret it, this film is very interesting.

The acting is good. Nancy Carroll shines. Cary Grant and Randolph Scott are strong in their roles.

Hot Saturday (1932)

There are a few early Cary Grant movies where he has a small role, or where he isn't quite the "Cary Grant" we have come to expect (and which he always jokingly said he wanted to become himself). But this one is pure, true Grant, and very early, indeed. But even better, the plot, the mise-en-scene (including town scenes, domestic situations, and a range of outdoor stuff at the lake including a bohemian roadhouse on the water), and the photography are amazing. I mean amazing. There are a few stumbles in the acting, but you get so swept along, and so continually surprised, this won't matter much at all.

The director of all this gets a huge amount of credit, because William Seiter who pulls the best out of the cast and the crew, equally--and who presumably helped choose some terrific location shots as well as matching studio scenes. Seiter was a Hollywood working man director, doing lesser A-list films and making them decent, though none that I've seen (a small fraction of a huge output from the 20s to the 40s) has the energy and flair of this one. And this is an unsung one, definitely worth seeking out.

Likewise, Arthur Todd behind the camera did a dumpload of good if unamazing films, and so it was with the music and set design. But the leading lady is another story. Nancy Carroll really steals the show, even from Grant and the other leading male, the rather wooden and handsome Randolph Scott. She has a kind of live-wire, doll-face quality a little similar to Claudette Colbert, easily as amazing in this film. Carroll supposedly had more fan mail than any actress in this era of Hollywood, and was contracted with Paramount (which was the studio here). But she was so difficult to work with offscreen (rejecting many parts) they let her go, and her career slid, and she probably missed out on another higher kind of stardom.

But here she is alive, sympathetic, and complex on screen. If Cary Grant isn't enough to lure you in, give Carroll her due.

This is of course a pre-code film (widely advertised as such) and in fact the looseness of the events, the morality of the lead, and the suggestive scenes (never explicit) all help make this come alive. The dance and party scenes are so much fun you'll wish you were there, and the cave in the storm as well as the night scenes in the woods are pretty amazing, too. The end will prove, again, both the ability of pre-code films to touch on real life issues, and the need of even these kinds of films to have a moral compass by the end. The very last few seconds takes care of this.

Great stuff. A huge surprise for me.

In small-town Marysville, attractive bank clerk Nancy Carroll (as Ruth Brock) is desired by several young men. She prefers to play the field. One of Ms. Carroll's more ardent admirers is wealthy playboy Cary Grant (as Romer Sheffield). He invites Ms. Carroll and her friends over to his lakeside estate for alcohol and fun, on a "Hot Saturday" night in July. Carroll arrives, on a date with co-worker Edward Woods (as Connie Billop). She refuses to make-out with him during a boat ride, so he dumps her ashore. That's not very gentlemanly. Carroll walks to Mr. Grant's house and he sends her home in his chauffeured car. Jealous banker's daughter Lilian Bond (as Eva Randolph) sees Carroll sneaking in late and spreads the rumor that Carroll spent the night with Grant. Carroll's reputation is ruined...

Soon, girl-shy geologist Randolph Scott (William "Bill" Fadden) returns to town, after seven years. A childhood friend, Mr. Scott discovers Carroll has grown out of her pigtails and into a bra. Carroll sees quick marriage as a solution to her problems. "Hot Saturday" is about malicious gossip, which has turned out to be a timeless problem. It's interesting to see it play out in the 1930s. Director William Seiter and the Paramount studio crew really go to town on "Marysville". The automobiles and fashions gleam. There are almost too many people in early background scenes; probably, everyone ran errands on Saturday. Watch for a scene occurring at just under 15 minutes of running time; in it, Carroll wrestles her squealing teenage sister Rose Coughlan (as Annie) to remove some stolen under-shorts.

****** Hot Saturday (10/28/32) William Seiter ~ Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods

I'm so old that I can remember when the morality depicted in this movie was still strong. No sex before marriage. And then make an advantageous marriage. This morality is the basis of this film, and the story which is derived from it seem to reflect some of the twenties silents about wild girls-who really weren't so wild.

In any case, Nancy Carroll Kewpie-doll face, much in style at that time, is mesmerizing. This is one attractive woman.A young Cary Grant is also preternaturally attractive. This is a very early film for him, but he already has that Cary Grant manner about him. Here, he has charm, looks, lots of money, and one hell of a custom build car. Chauffeur driven, of course. Randolph Scott appears late; he is one nice guy. Sort of what Ralph Bellamy became a bit later.

If this movie had a message, it was garbled The whole enterprise was fun, although this clearly was not meant to be a comedy. The serious parts of the movie are so dated, that they play as light comedy, not drama..

Nancy Carroll shines as an innocent woman nearly destroyed by >gossip in this very unflattering portrait of small town America. >Now forgotten, Carroll brings sensitivity, depth, and humor to >her performance. An inexperienced but effective Cary Grant is a >man with charm and without conventional morals. The ending is a >surprise.

Small towns and everybody in your business is the subject of "Hot Saturday," from 1932.

Cary Grant, though in a supporting role, stars in this Paramount film with the adorable Nancy Carroll. Grant was getting the star build-up at the time and had not yet become his "Cary Grant" persona. Having seen a lot of early Grant films, I'd say he was heavier early on and I personally think his nose was different. Just an observation.

Nancy Carroll plays bank clerk Ruth Brock, who is pretty and popular. She's engaged to tall, handsome Randolph Scott. I wouldn't cheat on him either.

When she rejects one of her coworkers, Ed, he starts gossip about her and a notorious playboy (Grant), when all that happened was that she ran away from him and into the woods, and Grant offered her a ride home.

They live in a small town where if you have a funeral with a closed casket, it's assumed to be suicide. So the ramifications for Ruth are bad. She loses her job, for one thing, her mother turns against her, and it gets worse!

Good film and a good example of the mores of the day, and I think there is still a double standard for men's and women's behavior in some areas and among some groups.

Carroll was a real bright light whose looks reminded me of Claudette Colbert's. She made a highly successful transition into talkies and was an enormous star at Paramount throughout the 1930s. She retired in 1938 and eleven years later, began to work in television, and later, returned to her stage roots. She died of an aneurysm in her hotel room during a run of "Never Too Late."

Worth seeing for the leads.

This takes a while to get going, indeed the first half hour is pretty dull. It is worth sticking with it though as eventuality it evolves into a mature little drama about small town prejudice and petty small mindedness.

Nancy Caroll gives a give an outstanding performance as Ruth, a pretty but very normal, and ordinary girl who lives in a town called Marysville where the national sport seems to be gossip and pernicious tittle-tattle. Unlike many female lead roles in the 30s, Ruth is her own person, she's not someone who's prepared to just be someone's possession. Through no fault of her own, she acquires the wrath of the town gossips and is soon treated like a pariah by the whole nasty little town.

The two men in her life who might be able to help are her sweet childhood sweetheart and the local millionaire playboy. In a twist from the usual 1930s plot-line, the sweet childhood sweetheart turns out to be the bad 'un whereas the millionaire playboy (Cary Grant) is the knight in shining armour.

The natural and modern style of acting along the oppressiveness of the insular and mundane life of the town gives this picture a real sense of authenticity. Director William Seiter as usual delivers a believable story which you can empathise with. Nobody is particularly memorable, nobody stands out from the crowd. This makes it all very true to life but not especially exciting. Everything however happens so fast that it never has time to get boring although a bit of humour might have given it some extra sparkle.

Overall, it's a very well acted and well directed drama about that judgmental and snobbish attitude which although still pervades society today was endemic during this more pseudo moralistic time. It's not particularly shocking or revelatory and not really that memorable but it's an interesting glimpse into a former time.

Hot Saturday (1932)

*** (out of 4)

Ruth Brock (Nancy Carroll) lives in a very small town where everyone knows the other person's business. The whole town loves to gossip with a lot of it being about Romer Sheffield (Cary Grant) who is a notorious womanizer. One day Ruth and Romer strike up a friendship and a jealous man decides to spread a vicious rumor and pretty soon the whole town turns on Ruth.

HOT Saturday is a morality tale about how stupid people in stupid small towns like to play moral cops and will throw away anyone they feel is beneath them. Obviously this film could hit home even today as gossip still runs rampant and is even more so on something like social media. If you're looking for a flawless movie or even a classic one then this really isn't that but at the same time it's a rather charming and entertaining film that's certainly worth watching.

It should go without saying but the highlight of the films are the actual performances. I really enjoyed Carroll in the lead as she was very believable in the role of the woman with morals who finds herself being attacked by a bunch of rumors. I really did think Carroll got the "good girl" aspect correct and she kept you glued to what was going on. Grant is also very good playing the playboy who isn't quite as shallow as some would believe. Randolph Scott is good as her eventual love interest and Jane Darwell is exceptionally good as the rather bad mother. Grady Sutton also has a nice role as does Edward Woods as a real slime-ball who sadly never gets his due in the picture.

Director William A. Seiter does a good job with the material even though there's certainly nothing ground-breaking here. The story is a quite simple one and it gets its point across without having to become too preachy.

Cary Grant's star had risen enough by the end of 1932, that he would get top billing in this film, and soon, in all of the movies that he would make. But the main star of this film is Nancy Carroll. While she is quite good, and an attractive actress, she only had the leads in a few films and mostly performed in second roles or supporting roles until she would end her relatively short career in TV.

Along with Grant and Carroll are Randolph Scott in a role that's barely much more than a cameo, with just four brief scenes. But his appearance is enough to change the future of Carroll's character. She plays Ruth Brock, while Scott is Bill Fadden and Gant plays Romer Sheffield. Also here are Jane Darwell as Ida Brock, Lilian Bond as Eva Randolph and Edward Woods as Connie Billop.

Billop's character is person one might like to poke in the nose (for a guy) or lay a hard hand (for a gal). But Eva and many of the town gossips could all use some dressing down too.

While the townsfolk gossip about a lie that was perpetrated by Billop, Sheffield has remained a gentleman throughout. When Fadden thinks the worst of Ruth and their wedding is off, she has but one choice. It's a good film that shows the evil and harm of lies. Several old films had town busy-bodies spreading gossip on the telephone. Sort of like modern young people, especially, posting all sorts of fiction about themselves on social medial with cell phones.

The only incongruity in the film is at the end. Although Sheffield clearly has fallen for Ruth, her quick change from loving Bill and wanting to marry him, to a lifetime of affection for Romer is a little hard to believe. Part of her problem in the first place was that she wouldn't at least tell her parents the truth about her night out when Billop forced himself on her at the lake and she had to get out of the boat to get away from him. But, this is Hollywood, so it's nice to think that Ruth's reward was a happy life married to the wealthy Romer Sheffield, traveling and seeing the world. And, of course, having a family and other things that make life really fulfilling.

This was a good movie, and the acting wasn't exaggerated, as often happened in the early days of sound, when no one was sure what to do with their voices. Nancy Carroll gave a good performance as Ruth Brock, a small-town working-class girl who likes a bit of fun and flirting but never goes too far yet becomes a victim of circumstances and the target of gossip, ruining her reputation. She's even unjustly fired, not to mention dumped by her self-righteous fiancé, Bill Fadden (Randolph Scott) who believes the stories without even hearing her side of things.

Cary Grant was as handsome and charming as ever, in his role as Romer Sheffield, a wealthy playboy who takes a fancy to Ruth and unwittingly becomes the cause of her troubles.

The movie shows how quick people are to believe the worst, without any proof beyond rumors and gossip, how fast stories spread, and how willing everyone is to believe them. The ending surprised me, and I was happy the way things turned out.

There's good acting all around, with entertaining supporting characters.

Worth watching!

Aside from the silly and gratuitous underwear scene, this movie does a good job of telling the story of poor Ruth Brock, a hard-working, put-upon small town girl who is judged and persecuted by her neighbors and so-called friends following a day of fun on an eponymous 'Hot Saturday' in the summer of 1932.

Subsequent events show how much women had staked on maintaining their reputations at that time, a topic that didn't go away with the enforcement of the production code though it lost a lot of its nuance. The expression on Ruth's face in the last frame of this film is so uncertain...she doesn't know if she's doing the right thing, doesn't know quite what she's getting into. I grieve for the loss of that ambiguity in films made in the years to come.

Nancy Carroll is brilliant in the role of Ruth, sparing the audience tedious hysterics and instead portraying the bitterness and frustration of living in a town of petty fools with nothing better to do than tear each other apart. I sort of wish there were two versions of this movie, one starring Carroll and one starring Barbara Stanwyck so I could do a side-by-side comparison. Stanwyck did such a good job with offended righteousness in 'Night Nurse'. But I'd keep Cary Grant in both...young and perfectly cast in the role of the local "disreputable cad" (that's how he's described (aptly) on the label).

But even a disreputable cad can have good points...and keen-eyed, truthful, pre-production code Ruth won't fail to notice them...

"Hot Saturday" is a terrific little movie, and much better than its IMDb rating would suggest.

This was my first exposure to Nancy Carroll, and it's clear from her performance and screen presence why she was such a major star, if only for a short time. She plays a young woman living in a small town who becomes the subject of rumors when she's seen cavorting with a known rascal, played by Cary Grant, who likewise proves why he rocketed to stardom and stayed there. When Carroll realizes the small-minded people of the town are going to treat her like a floozy whether or not any of the rumors are true, she decides to make them true by giving the town (and Grant) what they want. This happens much to the dismay of her solid, down-to-earth beau, played by Randolph Scott.

I was not expecting this film to end the way it did, and was thrilled at the way it completely defied my expectations. Carroll doesn't see the error of her ways, apologize to her mom and dad and hunker down to a nice, sensible marriage with Scott. Instead, she hops in a car, essentially gives the entire town the finger, and rides off with Grant. Take that, Production Code!!

It was so refreshing to see a film that allows a woman her sexuality without forcing her to apologize for it by the film's end. Sure, she's going to be branded a slut by the town she's leaving behind, but the movie makes the town and the people in it so miserable that the viewer doesn't care any more for its opinion than Carroll does herself.

"Hot Saturday" is on a double DVD bill with "Torch Singer," and the two films together make a dynamite duo.

Grade: A-

I have read some reviews and feel so many miss the point of this film . The intro gives the gist in a nutshell - ' a busy telephone exchange where everybody knows on Sunday what everybody did on Saturday night -and the rest of the week '.

The film is slow in developing the theme ,but it does a good job of getting all of the characters identified and their traits so the plot is ready to unfold .It unfolds quickly and then the misdeed is set in motion . Conny and Eva are the 2 " hot ones ' on the youth circuit . When they see Ruth coming back in Romer's car , they begin with their havoc . First Connie lies and and then Eva lets the cat out of the bag on the phone in front of her mother .

The film shows how quickly gossip can spread and how the story expands and the changes are received as gospel truth . The cruelty and the harshness continue to grow with the telling and re-telling . No one dare questions the veracity of the charges . Once the gossip gets going , there is no recalling the charges . The tragedy is they will never get their comeuppance because no one will trace the source . That's life in a small town where there is a busy telephone exchange

Then the gossips take over . Ruth's reputation is ruined in one day .An it continues as small towns need to have something to talk about . It grows worse until Ruth is looked upon as the town tramp and fired .

She sees marrying Randolph Scott as a quick way to end the shame , but it wouldn't in reality . She would be years living this scandal down if ever .

This was about as accurate a portrayal of the visciousness of life in a small town as you will find . This truly is a piece of 'Americana 'of life as you will find .

Jane Darwell expressed small town mentality of parents not wanting to be embarrassed by the actions of the children because they have live with the populace . Today , most parents would give it no thought

That is the reason Grant's name was pronounced 'rumor' . The ending was stilted and contrived to tone down the scandal . Ruth was getting away from it all . You see the little hesitation of Ruth as she lifts her head up and then she lays her head on Grant's shoulder . Grant's transformation is stretching one's credulousness . All of the ending was asking too much .

Hot Saturday isn't really a great picture but as a Pre-Code movie with some famous stars it has a certain cachet. Interesting, maybe, but not a must-see. It is a hyperbolic tale about small town hypocrisy and is very tame by todays (lack of) standards - the main topic of discussion wouldn't raise an eyebrow nowadays.

True, there is a scene in which the little sister gets de-pantsed by the big sister for wearing her brand-new underdrawers, but I guess it was more shocking to '30's audiences than now. The big sister, Played by Nancy Carroll, is the main focus of the story. Hadn't seen her before and she was very good, a ringer for Betty White with a cute kewpie-doll face. This was Cary Grants' 3rd film and made a pleasant appearance as the rakish Romer Sheffield, local rich boy ne'er do well. Randolph Scott plays it straight without much to do - no six-shooter and doesn't get to punch anyone.

Recommended for film history buffs. Pretty tame stuff and an OK way to spend 73 minutes, as it moves quickly.