In the same year that he won the Academy Award for the great "A Double Life," Ronald Colman starred in this colossal stuffy bomb about an idealistic Boston family of 1912. They're a wealthy bunch although the film never tells us where they got their money from.
Colman was an outstanding actor and he is able to rise above the boring film and give a splendid performance as a man devoted to his social mores of the time. The problem is that he is about to wreck the lives of his son and daughter by his obstinate ways. In reality, he is nothing more than a snob who quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson to justify his ways.
You know that he will eventually come to his senses but you don't care as this film just moves along at a dull pace.
As his sister, Mildred Natwick (Amelia) has some funny lines but that's about it.
You would think that being born in Boston to wealth meant that you remained there for good and acted in an outlandish way.
It is only when The Bird Society denies him the presidency, Apley begins to come to his senses. This film is certainly for the birds. This might have worked in 19th century Europe but forget it here.
Colman was an outstanding actor and he is able to rise above the boring film and give a splendid performance as a man devoted to his social mores of the time. The problem is that he is about to wreck the lives of his son and daughter by his obstinate ways. In reality, he is nothing more than a snob who quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson to justify his ways.
You know that he will eventually come to his senses but you don't care as this film just moves along at a dull pace.
As his sister, Mildred Natwick (Amelia) has some funny lines but that's about it.
You would think that being born in Boston to wealth meant that you remained there for good and acted in an outlandish way.
It is only when The Bird Society denies him the presidency, Apley begins to come to his senses. This film is certainly for the birds. This might have worked in 19th century Europe but forget it here.