Sporting Blood
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Movie of the Week: Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1931) and Sporting Blood (1931)
This week, Clark Gable loves Greta Garbo in Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise and Madge Evans in Sporting Blood (both 1931). Susan Lenox is a fine little pre-code film, mostly notable only because his co-star is the Great Garbo. Garbo is Susan (born Helga), an illegitimate orphan raised in shame by her aunt and her cruel husband, who treats her like a slave. He picks a man for her to marry “so you won’t be without a wedding ring like your mother”. When the man tries to rape her, she runs away in a rainstorm, seeking shelter in a barn owned by architect Rodney (Gable). Rodney lets her stay…
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Nutshell Reviews: Night Nurse (1931) and Sporting Blood (1931)
In a Nutshell: Night Nurse (1931) Directed by: William Wellman Co-stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell Synopsis: A quintessential pre-code, the film centers around Laura Hart (Stanwyck) as she struggles to keep her ideals while getting through nursing school. After she graduates, she is assigned to be a night nurse to two little girls suffering from malnutrition and anemia. Gable does not appear until halfway through the film and only appears for a few minutes, as one-dimensional character Nick, the evil brute of a chauffeur. Laura becomes suspicious of the doctor treating the children and of Nick. Nick throws her around, bullies her and the children say they are scared of…
