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Lively blend of comedy and drama concerns a loveless San Francisco woman who enlists the aid of her flighty sister and her oblivious father to trick a shipping company heir into marrying her. But when she unexpectedly falls in love with the man, she must figure out how to win his heart when he discovers her ruse. Ann Harding, William Powell, Lucile Browne star. 69 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; photo gallery; video commentary; pressbook; theatrical trailer.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.93 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ John Cromwell
Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 9 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ May 17, 2012
Actors ‏ : ‎ William Powell, Ann Harding
Studio ‏ : ‎ Turner Classic (Con)
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001SJPO9Y

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Great movie. Sadly, not burned on M-DISC

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 12, 2017

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Great movie. Sadly, not burned on M-DISC

I completely understand that obscure movies like this do not economically justify pressing a disc. However, I would've gladly paid a dollar more for a disc that would last forever. Instead, they burned the movie on the old-fashioned, purple dye type disc that are only good for around 5 - 7 years. M-Disc last 100s of years.

This review is for the actual item I received from Amazon. If you are after a, "pure movie review", I suggest you look at the International Movie Database. There you will find many reviews without regard to the delivery mechanism.

Great Movie !!

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Always good service from Amazon.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 21, 2019

Movie for pleasure!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2015

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One of my favorite movies, surprised how good the quality of the movie used being used. Great job seller.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2015

Great movie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 15, 2015

love this movie

Ann Harding & William Powell = Spicy, Intelligent Chemistry

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 24, 2011

As I mention in my book Ann Harding-Cinema's Gallant Lady, DOUBLE HARNESS was one of the many wonderful pre-Code films to "bite the dust" after the enforcement of the Production Code. The film was a critical and financial success, but never re-released. The problem was a seduction scene which established that Ann Harding was offering William Powell pre-marital favors. In the 1950's ... a truncated DOUBLE HARNESS showed up on New York TV where portions of this "offensive" scene were deleted. This DVD contains the restored version.

DOUBLE HARNESS -used here as an idiom for "Marriage" had been a London stage success in 1933 written by an American, Edward Poor Montgomery, who adapted it from a 1904 novel by English author Anthony Hope. Hope had also penned THE PRISONER OF ZENDA. Oddly enough, the director for DOUBLE HARNESS, John Cromwell, would direct Ronald Colman 1937's THE PRISONER OF ZENDA. Cromwell also directed OF HUMAN BONDAGE, with Bette Davis, after Ann Harding turned down the role. Cromwell had actually directed Ann Harding ten years earlier, in 1923, in her first big hit on Broadway, TARNISH.

By the time they teamed for DOUBLE HARNESS in May 1933, both Ann Harding and William Powell were well-established screen stars. Harding had been nominated for Best Actress for HOLIDAY (1930) and Powell was just a year away from THIN MAN triumph at MGM. Powell liked the script for DOUBLE HARNESS and was delighted to be working with Ann, an actress whom he truly admired. On screen their chemistry and rapport is the film's chief asset.

In his 2007 review of Double Harness SF critic/author Mick LaSalle stated, "Double Harness is especially precious because it is one more of a handful of first-rate vehicles for Ann Harding, who was perhaps the best actress of the early 1930s. Don't believe it? See her. Her technique is psychological, extremely modern."

As with most Ann Harding films, the ensemble spirit prevails. Cromwell's direction is sleek. Ann's saucy, yet level-headed character targets wealthy San Francisco playboy Powell as if it were her "business" to do so. Powell finds her "coolly virginal, yet exquisitely inviting." He asks if she can be trusted. "Can you?" she replies. "In drinking, yes," he answers. Harding and Powell pull off the superb dialogue with seasoned charm and flair. Watch for the scene where Harding first goes up to Powell's apartment. She's wearing a gardenia corsage that Powell gave her- as they embrace, she exclaims "My Flowers!" She's about to be de-flowered, as it were--a great double-entendre.

About the only thing that misses the mark is a slap-stick scene toward the end. A confrontation between Reginald Owen (the butler) and Wong Chung (the cook)comes off as a bit awkward. The finis itself, however, is quite touching. Highly Recommended.

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The film and product are marvelous...but don't fall for this

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2009

This product and this film are both very good. Do be aware that this is a DVD-R you are purchasing. Notice the TCM logo displayed prominently on the artwork? You can buy this film directly from TCM for under twenty dollars. If you want the entire Lost and Found RKO film collection of six films on DVD-R it will cost you just under sixty-five dollars. As for the film, it is a great pre-code, unshown for decades and tied up in rights problems until TCM rode to the rescue in 2007 and cleared matters up. Now TCM owns the rights to this and five other films that were in the same boat.

Ann Harding plays Joan, the oldest of two sisters and the daughter of a man who is still wealthy but has been hit hard by the depression. The film opens on the family shopping for younger daughter Valerie's wedding trousseau. Valerie's champagne tastes are having difficulties adjusting to a cheaper brand, and one gets the feeling that she's used to being pampered by both Joan and her father. This fact figures in prominently later on in the plot. Afterward, Joan runs into John Fletcher (William Powell), heir to the Fletcher shipping line. After a couple of casual dates, Joan decides that John would make a good husband. The bottom line looks good - there's only one problem. John is a confirmed bachelor. Joan decides to take the intensity of her quest up a notch. She begins sleeping with John and, with the help of her sister, arranges to have her father call on John and find her in his apartment dressed only in lounging pajamas. Chivalry will demand that John marry her and so will her father.

Things work out as Joan planned up to a point. John agrees to marry Joan, but wants it understood that there will be a divorce after a respectable amount of time has passed - six months. In the meantime, Joan's business-like attitude towards the marriage has been ruined by the fact that she now loves John and only has six months to get him to feel the same way without trying so hard that John can see that she is trying to get him to love her.

This movie has some great precode moments as well as the always dapper William Powell and the regal bearing of Ann Harding at her very best. In spite of the rather dramatic and heavy sounding plot I've described, it also has some great comic moments. The best of these is near the end of the film when Joan has to pull off a dinner party for some of John's potential clients without having them know about the mayhem going on behind the scenes, yet she is thwarted quite hilariously at every turn.

Let me also remark that the video and audio quality on this product are quite good. Highly recommended for fans of precode cinema.

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Good old-time movie...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 23, 2017

At one hour and 10 minutes, there's not a lot of filler to talk about. Just a good story from the early 1930s around the depression. Nice love story, but never sappy.

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Genre	Classics
Format	NTSC
Contributor	Ann Harding, John Cromwell, William Powell
Runtime	1 hour and 9 minutes

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