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Rip Tide

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Rip Tide
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1hr 30min
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1934
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Synopsis: A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip Tide is a standard-issue Norma Shearer soap opera. Shearer plays Mary, a footloose and fancy-free American heiress who weds British nobleman Lord Rexford (Herbert Marshall). Five years later, Rexford embarks upon a business trip to New York, while Mary, urged on by her fun-loving aunt, vacations on the Riviera. Here she is reacquainted with her ex-boyfriend Tommie (Robert Montgomery), ... Full Synopsis
Critics' Reviews
Riptide, written and directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Irving Thalberg, was the kind of romantic comedy/drama that MGM rattled off with ease in the mid-1930's. Hopelessly swamped by its upscale setting and characters, who move amid its lavish settings and costumes, it oozed class consciousness and high-toned dialogue in its time, spiced by the sheer superciliousness of its characters' needs ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Lady Mary Rexford, Mary Rexford
Tommy Trent
Lord Philip Rexford
Lady Hetty Riversleigh
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