Holiday

1930

Action / Comedy / Drama

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 91% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 91% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 805 805

new year's eve businessman wealth working class black and white attraction

Plot summary

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

Director

Edward H. Griffith Photo
Edward H. Griffith

Top cast

Ann Harding Photo
Ann Harding as Linda Seton
Hedda Hopper Photo
Hedda Hopper as Susan Potter
Mary Astor Photo
Mary Astor as Julia Seton
Paul Power Photo
Paul Power as Party Guest
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775.72 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
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1.53 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by JoeytheBrit 6 / 10

Holiday review

A young man finds that his free-spirited nature is at odds with the more serious attitudes of his fiancé and most of her wealthy family. An early version of the more famous 1938 adaptation of Philip Barry's stage play which featured box office heavyweights Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in the roles taken here by lesser lights Ann Harding and Robert Ames. Harding is very good, but Ames is too bland for a role that calls for a big personality. It's all very dated, but quite engaging nevertheless. Rather bizarrely, three of the four lead males in this movie would be dead before the '38 version hit screens just eight years later
Reviewed by marcslope 7 / 10

Quite like the '38, but...

The 1938 remake benefits from a more assured production and, of course, Cukor's direction. And the two are surprisingly close: Whole swatches of dialog from 1930 are lifted more or less bodily (the 1930 version, most likely, did the same with the stage dialog). And it's a rather stagy early talkie, trying, but not very hard, to move the action around and make it more cinematic. What the early version does have is Ann Harding. She's so lovely, and her playing has, I don't know, a stillness, a contemplation to it; she seems to think very hard about what to say before she says it. It lends a certain gravitas to what is already a fairly serious comedy dealing with rather large issues--how to live one's life, and how one's choices affect those around one. Mary Astor is also miles beyond Doris Nolan, creating a multifaceted, complicated character out of what could come across as just a selfish sister. Robert Ames hasn't Cary Grant's polished comedy playing or looks, but he's credible, and Edward Everett Horton is delightful in the same part he played in 1938. It's a mellow, thoughtful movie, marred but hardly ruined by the primitive movie-making. And we're very lucky to have Ann Harding's Oscar-nominated Linda Seton preserved.
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