The Animal Kingdom
He scratched her tender skin and found a savage!
1932 | 85m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Edward H. Griffith, George Cukor |
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| Writer: | Horace Jackson |
| Staring: |
| Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 28, 1932 |
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| Director: | Edward H. Griffith, George Cukor |
| Writer: | Horace Jackson |
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Keywords | new york city, butler, pre-code, publisher |
| Production Companies | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $458,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 02, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Ann Harding | Daisy Sage |
| Leslie Howard | Tom Collier |
| Myrna Loy | Cecelia Henry Collier |
| William Gargan | Regan |
| Neil Hamilton | Owen |
| Ilka Chase | Grace |
| Henry Stephenson | Rufus Collier |
| Leni Stengel | Franc Schmidt |
| Don Dillaway | Joe Fisk |
| William B. Davidson | Chess Player |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Edward H. Griffith | Additional Writing, Director |
| George Cukor | Director |
| Max Steiner | Original Music Composer |
| Daniel Mandell | Editor |
| Van Nest Polglase | Set Decoration |
| Walter Plunkett | Costume Design |
| Horace Jackson | Screenplay |
| Philip Barry | Theatre Play |
| George J. Folsey | Director of Photography |
| Howard Greer | Costume Design |
| Mel Berns | Makeup Artist |
| Ethel Hogan | Hairstylist |
| Fred Fleck | Unit Manager |
| C.J. White | Production Manager |
| Thomas Atkins | Assistant Director |
| Fred Spencer | Assistant Director |
| Denzil A. Cutler | Sound |
| James Daly | Assistant Camera |
| Ernest Bachrach | Still Photographer |
| Adela Rogers St. Johns | Additional Writing |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| David O. Selznick | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
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Leslie Howard certainly had a star quality about him, and he demonstrates that with aplomb here, but the story is just, well, wet... He is caught in a seemingly genuine love triangle between "Daisy" (Ann Harding") and wife "Cecelia" (Myrna Loy) and spends much of the time, aided ably by permanently ... sozzled butler "Red" (William Gargan) vacillating - occasionally comically - as he treads the fine line between the pair of them. The performances and writing are fine, nothing more, but I just found the story wore way too thin, too quickly - and "Daisy", frankly, deserved far better than to be involved at all... What it does seem to comment upon, surprisingly for 1932, is an acceptability from all concerned - including, to a certain extent from the families, that this arrangement though frustrating, isn't wrong. The film shows an enlightening degree of non-judgmentalism that I found quite refreshing.