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Information
- A.k.a.
- The Woman in His House
- Year
- 1932
- Runtime
- 85 min.
- Directors
- George Cukor, Edward H. Griffith
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Rating *
- 6.6
- Votes *
- 539
- Checks
- 116
- Favs
- 8
- Dislikes
- 2
- Favs/checks
- 6.9% (1:15)
- Favs/dislikes
- 4:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
If Myrna Loy hadn't been in The Animal Kingdom, I would have bailed early. Not to say Leslie Howard and Ann Harding don't deliver on the acting as well, but their characters are less lively, I might even call them dreary at times. But I've got it into my head that if Myrna Loy is in something, then I want to see that thing even if it's not very good. It's just that The Animal Kingdom is dull as dishwater. There's something to the pre-Code breathlessness of some scenes, and I certainly respect the picture it paints of a man who can't let go of a former love to truly respect his new one, stringing two women along by his weakness rather than perfidy. I've seen it often enough. But despite the title, there's really no "animal magnetism" to either Harding or Howard, as both feel like effete cold fish. I still struggle with the comedy(?) subplot about the boxing butler, a pawn to make Loy's character seem to ask Howard give up too much, but truth is, with Howard calling Loy an "object" from their very first scene, the wife here is treated appallingly, and that's not helping anything. 3 years 11 months ago -
