After Office Hours (1935)

A friend of mine had been looking for this, I saw it on Amazon, got it, he was very happy with it.

A great. screwball comedy from the thirties. Clark Gable and Constance Bennet are great.

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Stars of Hollywood golden age

After Office Hours is a typically well-made trifle from MGM’s glory days in the Thirties that coasts on star power without threatening to stay in the memory. Clark Gable is the standard issue fast talking newspaper editor who thinks that “a newspaper should print any news that can be found or bought” who fires Constance Bennett’s society girl from the reviews page but has to woo her back onto the staff when he discovers she’s an old friend of the key players in a society divorce scandal he’s desperate to get the scoop on – especially when it turns into a murder. Gable may surprisingly be second billed but he gets the better character even if it is a clichéd one, the writers not able to flesh Bennett out beyond the odd society reference and standard issue battle of the sexes banter with the odd bit of tongue-in-cheek class warfare thrown in: you certainly get the feeling that MGM wanted to catch some of It Happened One Night’s magic with another tale of a streetwise newspaperman and a society heiress, but didn’t really know how and certainly didn’t want to take them out of the drawing room. The dialogue rarely sparkles but the stars play it as if it did and at times do it so well that they almost convince you they’ve got better material than they do. Henry Travers and Stuart Erwin don’t really have enough to do as Gable’s sidekicks (nor does William Demarest's cop on the case) while Billie Burke’s on hand to do her usual shtick as Bennett’s naturally pixelated and well lubricated mother and you can even spot an unbilled Margaret Dumont as a guest at a society party.Warner Archive's DVD-R offers a decent transfer with the original trailer as an extra.

Great addition to my collection of old shows and movies!

Very good