After watching her younger sister readying for her wedding, spinster Joan (Ann Harding) concludes that a well born woman who can’t paint, play music or write has only one career option: live through a man. Double Harness, from 1933, follows her depressing logic. Eventually, she ensnares a young playboy played by Dick Powell who plays a shipping heir with an allergy to work. How she traps him is a bit of a wonder, considering that she is duller than chalk and looks as though she’s been drained of blood.
Shortly after the nuptials, Powell announces that he prefers his freedom to marriage to Joan, who is by this time smitten and determined win him over. Meanwhile, her equally cold blooded sister borrows money from anyone who will keep her in “chiffon panties,” including a cad who puts a condition on it. Sample dialogue:
“$1000? I’ll let you have it.”
“Any strings?”
“Naturally.”
Double Harness was thought to be a “lost film.” After an hour and a half of watching women humiliating themselves and men acting like stooges, I wished it would have stayed lost.
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Sounds nice and kinky to me. Although not perhaps as kinky as that title would have led me to believe…
This one actually sounds like fun.
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