The Bride Walks Out

Disappointing story about Barbara Stanwyck learning to stop being so uppity and emasculating her husband by wanting to work outside the home herself. Robert Young was supposed to represent temptation but the thing is, he was not only richer than her husband, he was nicer and seemed less sexist. Plot didn't work because by all rights the heroine should have left the "hero" for the interloper.

"Oh, that's all right. I'm swell at groping!" Robert Young is the only likable character in this bummer of a romantic "comedy" (featuring some rather low humor). Gene Raymond, tragically, does not get to be charming as the husband too proud to allow his wife to work. It seems we are supposed to dislike the fact that Barbara Stanwyck wants to live without having to count every penny and have her furniture repossessed, but we DO dislike her for giving into her husbands priggish demands. Ugh.

A fairly standard romance comedy with Barbara Stanwyck surrounded by Gene Raymond & Robert Young. And throw in Ned Sparks & Helen Broderick as the comical sidekicks it should have been a good one had they put more effort into the writing of this rather forgettable script. But this is typical of the 30s Stanwyck films. A basic story and hope Stanwyck would carry the rest. But by this point where there was strange moral pressures the stories are just too empty and tame to really work.