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Le temps des cerises

Original title: Spring Fever
  • 1927
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 18m
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6.4/10
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Le temps des cerises (1927)
Comedy

To impress a wealthy young woman, a clerk pretends he is a pro-golfer.To impress a wealthy young woman, a clerk pretends he is a pro-golfer.To impress a wealthy young woman, a clerk pretends he is a pro-golfer.

  • Director
    • Edward Sedgwick
  • Writers
    • Frank Davis
    • Vincent Lawrence
    • Albert Lewin
  • Stars
    • William Haines
    • Joan Crawford
    • George K. Arthur
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    1.1K
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    • Director
      • Edward Sedgwick
    • Writers
      • Frank Davis
      • Vincent Lawrence
      • Albert Lewin
    • Stars
      • William Haines
      • Joan Crawford
      • George K. Arthur
    • 16User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    William Haines
    William Haines
    • Jack Kelly
    Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford
    • Allie Monte
    George K. Arthur
    George K. Arthur
    • Eustace Tewksbury
    George Fawcett
    George Fawcett
    • Mr. Waters
    Eileen Percy
    Eileen Percy
    • Martha Lomsdom
    Edward Earle
    Edward Earle
    • Harry Johnson
    Bert Woodruff
    Bert Woodruff
    • Pop Kelly
    Lee Moran
    Lee Moran
    • Oscar
    William A. Boardway
    William A. Boardway
    • Golf Game Spectator
    • (uncredited)
    Helen Brent
    • Undetermined Secondary Role
    • (uncredited)
    Edward Brophy
    Edward Brophy
    • Golf Game Spectator
    • (uncredited)
    Joseph Harrington
    Joseph Harrington
    • Desk Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    Jack Raymond
    • Johnson's Caddy
    • (uncredited)
    Ellinor Vanderveer
    Ellinor Vanderveer
    • Country Club Lobby Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Florence Wix
    Florence Wix
    • Mrs. Waters
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Edward Sedgwick
    • Writers
      • Frank Davis
      • Vincent Lawrence
      • Albert Lewin
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    6SnoopyStyle

    young Crawford

    Mr. Waters is a frustrated golf enthusiast. Jack Kelly works for him as a shipping clerk. He gets angry when Mr. Waters fires his father and drives a golf ball through a window. Instead of being mad, Mr. Waters is taken with his golf swing and invites him to a country club. At the club, he is taken with Allie Monte (Joan Crawford) but she sees right through him.

    Joan Crawford is quite young here and almost unrecognizable since I've never seen her as a young woman. I'm also struck by the fact that silent film era comedies don't really work without being broad slapstick. The man had to drop trousers to get close to a laugh. It's a matter of timing. Comedy needs the verbal timing and there's nowhere for a silent film to deliver that. As for the romance, it's pretty standard. This has some good misunderstandings and hurdles. This is fine.
    6preppy-3

    Silly but somewhat essential viewing

    Poor Jack Kelly (William Haines) is a lowly stock clerk--but a wonderful golfer. Through circumstances to inane to get into he gets into a posh country club, becomes a top golfer and acts like a rich man. He meets beautiful rich Allie Monte (Joan Crawford) and falls in love. However he can't marry her and will have to eventually return to his poor life. What to do?

    To be truthful this picture is a yawner. The situations and characters are boringly predictable and the 2008 "restored" version is in utterly dreadful shape. Lousy music score too. But this is one of the few chances to see Haines and Crawford together. Haines was the top box office draw of the late 1920s. He was tall, VERY handsome and a good actor. Crawford was very young, beautiful and also a good actor. Her and Haines were best friends. Haines career was destroyed due to homophobia--he refused to dump his male lover and was fired. But Crawford and him remained life long friends and you can see here how they really clicked together and worked well. They both play opposite each other easily and their good looks and acting carry them through. The film is seriously one big snooze--but worth catching for Haines and Crawford. I give it a 6.
    8jediscoobs

    joan undresses in the dark on her wedding nite

    This was my first crawford film. it was also the first time i watched a silent picture. mayb it was the golf, mayb the title. in any case, i loved it.
    7jtyroler

    The Second Funniest Golf Movie?

    Off the top of my head, "Caddyshack" is the funniest movie where so much of the movie is about golf. "Caddyshack" it ain't, but it's a pretty good movie, although William Haines' movies of the time were pretty much formulaic. Haines' character, Jack Kelly, is a naturally talented golfer. His boss, Mr. Waters (George Fawcett - I wonder if Fawcett's last name was the reason for his character's name) is a golf nut - the movie opens with him making a hole-in-one. In reality, he's not a good golfer - at least it appears that way when he can't come close to the hole on the putting green in his study.

    When Jack finally gets to work (after playing golf), his father (Bert Woodruff) tells Jack that Mr. Waters is looking for him and is very angry. Jack find Waters - as Waters stomps through the building, Jack is following him (Jack's making faces, imitating Waters, etc.). Pop Kelly accidentally knocks over a vase and Waters fires him on the spot. Jack hits something (it looked almost like a baseball) with a cane and knocks out a window. Waters is impressed with Jack's golfing ability (at least his ability to hit something with a cane and get it through a window) and asks Jack to help him with his swing. For helping Mr. Waters, Jack is given a 2-week membership at the exclusive Oakmont Country Club.

    It's a Oakmont where Jack first sees Allie Monte (Joan Crawford). Jack reads Allie's signature when he checks in right after her and tries to act like they've met before. Possibly at Mary Brown's party? Jack says yes - Allie says she doesn't know a Mary Brown.

    Out on the golf course, Jack tries to get as close as he can to Allie, which irritates some of the men at the club. By the time the 2 weeks are up, Jack beats the course record, and, true to the formula of Haines' movies, he becomes even more arrogant than before. His father came to get him - Jack seems mad that Pop ever showed up. Jack decides that he's going to quit his job, stay at Oakmont, and marry for money.

    As per the Haines' formula, he gets knocked down a bit, and still comes out on top. There are a few twists and turns before ending on a happy note. Unfortunately, this film is somewhat damaged and that damage can be a bit distracting at points. It appears that this film might have been saved in the nick of time. This version has a 2008 copyright by Turner Entertainment Co. and a new score by Darrell Raby.
    5Doylenf

    Great chemistry between Haines and Crawford but formula plot...

    SPRING FEVER is a silent comedy that plods along with too many dull scenes on a golf course, occasionally enlightened by some good comic glances from WILLIAM HAINES and some nice reaction shots from the wealthy golf set, including a very young JOAN CRAWFORD (without the thick eyebrows and overpainted mouth).

    But the story is formula stuff, much like other Haines comedies that I've seen, whereby he struggles to prove himself (all for the sake of winning the girl) and goes through a series of Harold Lloyd-like situations before the clinch in the final reel.

    TCM's print shows quite a bit of film damage, so apparently they saved this one for restoration just in time. Some of the title cards are quite amusing but the background score imposed on the film is pretty tiresome before it's over.

    The best that can be said for this vehicle is that it shows Haines had the makings of a very good romantic leading man (in the Cary Grant vein when it comes to comedy), and his chemistry with Joan Crawford is evident from their first scene. In real life, they were great friends--and she helped him when the studios had to drop him because he refused to silence his homosexual lifestyle--whereby Crawford remained friends and gave him permission to design her new home which led to a new career for Haines in Hollywood.

    As for the film itself, it was hardly worth saving--very thin on plot and not a comfortable viewing experience due to the often poor quality of the print.

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      The hotel room rate of $22 per day would equate to about $400/day in 2025.
    • Quotes

      Mr. Waters: Sufferin' niblicks! A hole in one!

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    • Release date
      • October 22, 1927 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Spring Fever
    • Filming locations
      • Riviera Country Club, 1250 Capri Dr., Pacific Palisades, California, USA(country club)
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $405,000
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 18m(78 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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