Word: cuckolds
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...trains, cross-country buses and every other public place except a comfort station for the past four years: the bad girl with the heart of gold; the dipsomaniac writer; the hero pining for his lost love who makes her appearance in time's nick; the shady financier; the cuckold with his wife and her dishonest lover and all the rest. However, in China Seas this familiar crew has a new and entertaining bag of tricks to display...
...clothes, has the appeal of cold turkey. Her laborious refinement and sincerity are expertly relieved by the acidities of Edna May Oliver. The plot: Robert Montgomery, non-marrying lady-killer, is talked into marrying Joan Crawford. Because he cannot stop lady-killing, Joan piously makes him an apparent cuckold in public. This reforms him and, in what passes for high breeding in Hollywood, these two snarl, mutter, sneer, whine, shout their love at one another...
...caught, she tells her hard-bitten mother that Gavan was her seducer. Gavan gets a thoroughgoing thrashing but he marries Lucy, which is what he thinks he wants. Too late he discovers his affinity in a less twittery creature, the solid Sarah. But when Duncan continues to cuckold him and Lucy hangs herself in shame, it is too much: with pleasure Gavan murders his brother, loses his sanity, dumps the corpse into a boat and sets sail with the faithful Sarah into a big storm that finishes them and the story...
...Hotel. The mishaps and heroics of Channel Crossing occur on a boat from Dover to Calais. The minor passengers, all garrulous in British accents as thick as the fog that comes down half way across the Channel, are what alert cinemaddicts expect to find in such surroundings: a comic cuckold (Nigel Bruce), a terse captain, a deck steward with a teething baby. Lang performs with too much solemnity, but a sound formula and good acting by handsome Constance Cummings make the picture another British threat to Hollywood. Typical shot: the financier, just after he has taken an overdose of adrenalin...
...heart." One of Dinesen's sophisticated elders quotes "that old saying which the peasants call the bachelor's prayer: 'I pray thee, good Lord, that I may not be married. But if I am to be married, that I may not be a cuckold. But if I am to be a cuckold, that I may not know. But if I am to know, that I may not mind...