Evelyn Prentice Movie Review 1934

Powell and Loy again team up as a married couple (after their "The Thin Man" success) but this time things aren't so rosy. He is an attorney with a wandering eye who has an affair with Russell (in her film debut). Loy finds out and turns for sympathy to Stephens but then she decides to stay with her husband after all. Only she's written some steamy letters to Stephens and he tries blackmailing her--and winds up dead. Dramatic courtroom scene straightens things out. Adapted from the novel by W.E. Woodward. Film was remade as "Stronger Than Desire" in 1939.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 78 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Mystery & Suspense, Marriage, Order in the Court, Law & Lawyers, Screen Teams: Loy & Powell

Screenplay

Lenore Coffee

Cast

Myrna Loy, William Powell, Harvey Stephens, Isabel Jewell, Una Merkel, Rosalind Russell, Henry Wadsworth, Edward Brophy, Cora Sue Collins, Jessie Ralph, Sam Flint, Pat O'Malley

Director

William K. Howard

Producer

Jr. John W. Considine, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures