Michael Curtiz: Mandalay / The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

Michael Curtiz: Mandalay / The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
138 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1932-1934 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Michael Curtiz

Written By:
Paul Hervey Fox
Austin Parker
Charles Kenyon
Maurine Dallas Watkins
Erwin Gelsey
Brown Holmes

Actors:
Kay Francis ..... Tanya Borodoff / Spot White / Marjorie Lang
Ricardo Cortez ..... Tony Evans
Warner Oland ..... Nick
Lyle Talbot ..... Dr. Gregory Burton
Ruth Donnelly ..... Mrs. George Peters
Lucien Littlefield ..... Mr. George Peters
Reginald Owen ..... Col. Thomas Dawson - Police Commissioner
Etienne Girardot ..... Mr. Abernathie
David Torrence ..... Capt. McAndrews of the Sirohi
Rafaela Ottiano ..... Madame Lacalles
Halliwell Hobbes ..... Col. Dawson Ames
Bodil Rosing ..... Mrs. Kleinschmidt
Herman Bing ..... Prof. Kleinschmidt
Shirley Temple ..... Betty Shaw (scenesDeleted)
Frank Baker ..... First Mate
Harry C. Bradley ..... Henry P. Warren
Hobart Cavanaugh ..... Purser
Wong Chung ..... Chang Lee - the Silk Merchant
Virginia Dabney ..... Rangoon Bar Girl
Otto Frisco ..... Fakir
Peggy Graves ..... Rangoon Bar Girl
Lillian Harmer ..... Louisa Mae Harrington
George Herrera ..... Second Steward
Olaf Hytten ..... Cockney Purser
Teru Izumida ..... Dancer
Leonid Kinskey ..... Man Standing by Piano
James B. Leong ..... Leong, Waiter
Torben Meyer ..... Mr. Van Brinken
Leonard Mudie ..... Police Lieutenant
Henry Otho ..... Second Sergeant
Desmond Roberts ..... Police Sergeant
Philip Sleeman ..... Amadah Khan - the Importer
Larry Steers ..... Rangoon Bar Patron / Passenger
Bee Stevens ..... Rangoon Bar Girl
Renee Whitney ..... Rangoon Bar Girl
Lottie Williams ..... The Peters' Friend
Eric Wilton ..... English Agent
Ann Dvorak ..... Molly Louvain
Lee Tracy ..... Scotty Cornell
Richard Cromwell ..... Jimmy Cook
Guy Kibbee ..... Pop - Policeman
Leslie Fenton ..... Nicky Grant
Frank McHugh ..... Skeets - Reporter
Evalyn Knapp ..... Doris
Charles Middleton ..... Police Capt. Slade
Mary Doran ..... Dance Hall Girl
Thomas E. Jackson ..... Police Sergeant
C. Henry Gordon ..... Detective Martin
Ben Alexander ..... Jimmy's College Friend
Louise Beavers ..... Washroom Attendant
Harry Beresford ..... Taxi Driver
Maurice Black ..... Nicky's Pal
Wade Boteler ..... Detective
William Burgess ..... Policeman
George Chandler ..... Reporter
Richard Cramer ..... Detective Baldwin
Jesse De Vorska ..... Tenant
Don Dillaway ..... Ralph Rogers
Jackie Lyn Dufton ..... Ann Marie
Eddie Fetherston ..... Radio Announcer
Ben Hall ..... Bellboy
Lillian Harmer ..... Landlady
Selmer Jackson ..... Detective Charlie
Gus Leonard ..... Collector
J. Farrell MacDonald ..... Police Sgt. J.B. Antrim
Hank Mann ..... Harley - Reporter
Claire McDowell ..... Mrs. Schiller
Pat O'Malley ..... Policeman John
Walter Percival ..... Reporter
'Snub' Pollard ..... B.J. Pratt
Dick Purcell ..... Jimmy's College Friend
Cliff Saum ..... Photographer
Ben Taggart ..... Policeman in Car
Harold Waldridge ..... Bellboy

Synopsis:

Mandalay: Russian refugee Tanya Borisoff is suddenly abandoned penniless in Rangoon, Burma, by her lover, Tony Evans, who accepted a gunrunning deal from Nick, the owner of an amoral nightclub. Nick made the deal hoping to get Tanya as his main 'hostess,' which Tanya accepts after an initial refusal, just to make the best of a bad situation. She becomes notorious using the name 'Spot White,' but her affairs cause the commissioner of police to deport her. She reminds the commissioner of a previous tryst he had with her and extorts 10,000 rupees from him with which to make a new life. She uses a new name, Marjorie Lang, going to Mandalay, Burma, via the Irrawadi River by steamer, where she meets alcoholic Dr. Gregory Burton, who is on his way to help in an area plagued with a deadly contagious fever. As they slowly fall in love, she learns he's doing that to make amends for once operating on a patient while drunk, causing his death. She decides to go with him so they can put their pasts behind them together. But Tony is on the steamer too, and tries to convince Tanya he still loves her. Tony gets a wire from Nick telling him the police are on his trail and will pick him up at the next port, so he leaves evidence to suggest he took poison and jumped overboard, but actually he hides in the hold of the boat. The captain finds the evidence and believes Tanya murdered Tony, but at the urging of Dr. Burton and the first mate who finds the wire, he finally decides it was a suicide and frees her. When Tony returns to an astonished Tanya, he tries to convince her to open a club with him in Mandalay, where she could be a 'hostess' again. Through with that life, she eyes the poison still in the cabin as Tony asks her to make him a drink. The Strange Love of Molly Louvain: Abandoned by her mother at a young age, Molly Louvain is seen as no good, but she dreams of living respectably with her sweetheart Jimmy, who has promised to marry her. When Molly arrives at Ralph's house to finally meet his mother she is informed that both Ralph and his mother have been called out-of-town suddenly and that the dinner has been canceled. Heartbroken and carrying Ralph's unborn child, Molly takes to the road with Nicky Grant, a small-time crook from her past. A couple years pass and she leaves her daughter in the care of another woman. One night her old friend Jimmy and his college pals visit the dance hall where Molly works as a hostess. Jimmy and Molly are happy to see one another and catch up on old times. Drunk and jealous, Nicky orders Molly and Jimmy into a car he has stolen. When the police spot the car, Nicky fires some shots and runs into an alley, hitting an officer before being wounded himself. Molly drives off in the car with Jimmy. With a cop dead, the entire city is on the lookout for the brunette mystery girl who drove the getaway car. Molly dyes her hair blonde and moves with Jimmy into an inconspicuous apartment to lay low. Their neighbor is Scotty Cornell, a streetwise newspaperman. Soon the police learn Molly's name and suspect her of being the brains behind Nicky's whole gang. Jimmy wants Molly to go away with him and get married, but Scotty counters with an offer to take her to Paris for some laughs. Molly is torn between her desire to at last be respectable with Jimmy and her attraction to Scotty, who may be more 'her type'. Meanwhile Scotty hatches a plan to catch the fugitive Ms. Louvain by broadcasting that her daughter is gravely ill. Molly turns herself in to the police in order to help her child, but finds it is only a ruse. Scotty is shocked to learn that the mystery woman he set the trap for is his own Molly. Touched by her maternal devotion, he recognizes that she is not the tramp he took her for and promises to drum up enough support in the press to keep her out of jail.

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