But even then, you may not be able to believe it's really as awful as what you are seeing.
The first 50 minutes of this movie is a standard 1930s melodrama: philandering husband cheats on wife, who discovers that there is "another woman" and confronts her. (If you've ever seen "The Women", you've seen this done much better.) It's best just skipped.
The rest of the movie takes place in a dirigible - yes, I'm not kidding - and goes from bizarre to whatever is past bizarre.
For most of the dirigible scene, Kay Johnson does a very good imitation/satire of Greta Garbo. Not just the accent, but the body movements and everything. You realize that Norma Shearer must have watched this movie before she made Idiot's Delight.
But then the dirigible breaks loose and starts to fall apart, and you suddenly realize that you are watching a 1930 predecessor to Poseiden Adventure - a very bad predecessor. People start jumping out of the dirigible with parachutes, and the dialogue, which had never been good, becomes awful.
It seems impossible to believe that this movie was released by a major studio, but it was. You have to see it to understand how awful it gets, but is it really worth your time to do that?
The first 50 minutes of this movie is a standard 1930s melodrama: philandering husband cheats on wife, who discovers that there is "another woman" and confronts her. (If you've ever seen "The Women", you've seen this done much better.) It's best just skipped.
The rest of the movie takes place in a dirigible - yes, I'm not kidding - and goes from bizarre to whatever is past bizarre.
For most of the dirigible scene, Kay Johnson does a very good imitation/satire of Greta Garbo. Not just the accent, but the body movements and everything. You realize that Norma Shearer must have watched this movie before she made Idiot's Delight.
But then the dirigible breaks loose and starts to fall apart, and you suddenly realize that you are watching a 1930 predecessor to Poseiden Adventure - a very bad predecessor. People start jumping out of the dirigible with parachutes, and the dialogue, which had never been good, becomes awful.
It seems impossible to believe that this movie was released by a major studio, but it was. You have to see it to understand how awful it gets, but is it really worth your time to do that?