...and least of all his father!"
So says Clara Bow's "Dynamite," speaking of her ex-husband Jack Crosby after a dinner in which she beat him up.
Good lord -- what did Crosby SAY at that dinner?
This is definitely one of the more hard-edged precode films.
I was wondering if a scene had been cut just before that line. We see them sit down to dinner, then a dissolve shows Thelma Todd recovering from a fight, presumably with Clara Bow who then speaks the line as she prepares to leave. Earlier, we had seen a great catfight between these two, why didn't they stage or show this one? A missed entertainment opportunity!
I think the scene was meant to be humorous and ironic - they sit down to dinner with the prospect that just maybe dinner will be civilized and then it cuts right to Monroe Owsley and Thelma Todd nursing their injuries and looking a wee bit humbled. Then, with not a hair on her head out of place, Clara Bow's they-got-what-they-deserved comment to Anthony Jowitt that "no one can speak disrespectfully of my dead child," just tidies it up for the viewer why she was pushed to get so scrappy. (Not that those two needed a specific reason, they were just innately annoying anyway.)
Have been waiting quite some time to see this film, and so glad TCM aired it tonight!
I barely recall having heard of the film, just by name, but when I saw it was part of TCM's "Pre-code" mini-marathon, I decided to check it out and am glad I did! Great film, and Clara Bow was awesome! She was really a great actress and this film showed her great range that ran the gamut of expressiveness and emotion.
Thank you, TCM!
"Think slow, act fast." --Buster Keaton
Yeah that was a pretty brutal line. What got me was the Fathers cynical line of thought and how the BF didn't get indignant.
She was better off without them. Dodged a bullet.