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Wendy Barrie and Kent Taylor in Repent at Leisure (1941)

Review by ksf-2

Repent at Leisure

6/10

Wendy Barrie (barely) carries this one

At only 66 minutes, we knew this wasn't going to be a major work from RKO. Wendy Barrie stars as "Emily", about to be married to the Prince of something or other. But she's not happy, and laments that she doesn't really want to marry him anyway. She bumps into "Richard" (Kent Taylor), and they hit it off. Just one problem: Richard works in her own father's store ! Wendy Barrie starred in a bunch of the "Falcon" films as well as the "Saint" films. Kent Taylor did okay in hollywood, but looks like he never made the bigtime. and of course, Charles Lane is "Morgan", the manager; Lane played a HUGE number of bit parts over his LONG career, usually serious, somber roles, (bill collectors) who had to rain on someone's parade. So when the story has them telling lie after lie to Morgan to save their jobs, they get in deeper and deeper. It's all pretty silly. If you're old enough to know Three's Company, this is where Mr. Roper walks in and it all blows up! as usual, they could have avoided the whole thing if they had just told the truth. We rush through the whole story... it's okay, as a B movie. all over and done with pretty quickly. hard to buy into it all, since it's all built on un-necessary lies and mis-understandings. we were way into the hollywood film code by now, but a smidge prior to entering WWII. shows on Turner Classics. meh.
  • ksf-2
  • Jun 5, 2019

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