Brief Moment (1933)

Brief Moment: Directed by David Burton. With Carole Lombard, Gene Raymond, Donald Cook, Monroe Owsley. A dissolute rich society boy marries a worldly nightclub singer, and she begins to have a wholly unexpected effect on him.

“So one cliché, the greedy gold digger, is subverted and replaced by another one, the spoiled heir redeemed through real hard work. This is a one-idea morality tale, and probably not a particularly original one at that.nYet Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond are very fine, dialogues are brisk and the tempo lively. Some of the supporting actors are also worth a mention – Arthur Hohl as the torch singeru0026#39;s caring boss, friend and wishful would-be husband, Herbert Evans who has a very funny scene as a butler with some useful experience of dealing with his masteru0026#39;s hangovers – he looks and sounds like a twin brother of Edward Everett Horton of Lubitschu0026#39;s fame. Thatu0026#39;s quite enough to make this simple-minded, unambitious story quite worth watching.”