The Dominant Sex

Phillips Holmes hopes to sell his new invention and buy back the family farm. Wife Diana Churchill is against the idea. She works too, and she wants to have a child. Why can't Holmes take a job with a big firm?

This drama contrasts their marriage with that of Romney Brent and Carol Goodner, who have been wed for some time. They are bored with each other, and Miss Goodner wants to see other men: purely as friends, she insists, and she doesn't see why Brent can't see other women in a purely social way.

It's a very disquieting view of marriage, even almost ninety years later. Each of the four have certain expectations, and each expects to get his or her own way. The men have an old-fashioned view of marriage, while the women don't, but none of them have thought out anything clearly, and the arguments are uglier for that.

I can only assume that the previous reviewer was unaware of the existence of quota quickies.Associated British would need economically made films like this to comply with their renter and exhibitor quotas.So if he was expecting an MGM style production no wonder he was disappointed.To me it was an interesting view of relationships between men and women in the late thirties.Music hall comedian Billy Milton has a small role.I had no great expectations of this and so was not disappointed.