So this is how your great-great grandparents partied during the depression when they were flaming youth! In the case of the young and troubled Richard Cromwell, being a healthy young man means fighting his libido, and that means dumping the girl he loves (Dorothy Wilson) to marry campus waitress Arline Judge after her father (Reginald Barlow) catches them together and insists they marry....or else! It seems like a tough punishment for doing what flaming youth have been doing for thousands of years, but it turns out that Judge is underage. Papa Barlow seems a bit too anxious to get rid of his daughter, and Wilson finds instant comfort with Carlson's rival (Eric Linden). It's up to Carlson's professor mentor John Halliday to try and make things right, especially when Linden and Wilson are involved in a car accident together.
This surprisingly heated teen drama is quite risque, showing the libidos of college kids simply trying to find their place in the world. It's Linden who says the line in my review introduction and sadly he pays for his carnal desires. The cast for the most part is really good, although Barlow seems like a villain out of a silent movie even if he truly believes what he's doing is right and isn't as brutal as he seems in his opening closeup. Judge, Halliday and Linden have the showier roles with Cromwell and Wilson very subtle in the leads. A pretty effective pre-code drama, even nearly 90 years later.
This surprisingly heated teen drama is quite risque, showing the libidos of college kids simply trying to find their place in the world. It's Linden who says the line in my review introduction and sadly he pays for his carnal desires. The cast for the most part is really good, although Barlow seems like a villain out of a silent movie even if he truly believes what he's doing is right and isn't as brutal as he seems in his opening closeup. Judge, Halliday and Linden have the showier roles with Cromwell and Wilson very subtle in the leads. A pretty effective pre-code drama, even nearly 90 years later.