This was a good movie, but I wish I had written the script, so I could have given it a different ending.
The story of star-crossed lovers, pilot Cynthia Darrington (Katharine Hepburn) and married MP Christopher Strong (Colin Clive) is played out well, avoiding a lot of melodrama and sentimentality, and yet with enough emotion to make you feel for the characters and understand - even if you don't condone - their affair, which was based on love and not a meaningless fling. At the same time, you can't help but feel for the wife (Billie Burke), as well.
A secondary plot involves Christopher's daughter, Monica (Helen Chandler), who falls for a married man and - ironically - turns to Cynthia for advice. It's not easy being confidant to a young woman when you're sleeping with her father.
Do they continue their love, despite the hurt it'll cause others, not to mention the damage to his political career? Cynthia takes matters into her own hands, from which there's no return.
It's an old movie worth watching, but not for the faint of heart.
The story of star-crossed lovers, pilot Cynthia Darrington (Katharine Hepburn) and married MP Christopher Strong (Colin Clive) is played out well, avoiding a lot of melodrama and sentimentality, and yet with enough emotion to make you feel for the characters and understand - even if you don't condone - their affair, which was based on love and not a meaningless fling. At the same time, you can't help but feel for the wife (Billie Burke), as well.
A secondary plot involves Christopher's daughter, Monica (Helen Chandler), who falls for a married man and - ironically - turns to Cynthia for advice. It's not easy being confidant to a young woman when you're sleeping with her father.
Do they continue their love, despite the hurt it'll cause others, not to mention the damage to his political career? Cynthia takes matters into her own hands, from which there's no return.
It's an old movie worth watching, but not for the faint of heart.