Strange Interlude (film)

Strange Interlude
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Based on Strange Interlude 
by Eugene O'Neill
Starring Norma Shearer
Clark Gable
Cinematography Lee Garmes
Edited by Margaret Booth
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • July 15, 1932 (1932-07-15)
Running time
109 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $654,000[1]
Box office $1,237,000[1]

Strange Interlude is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and is based on the play Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill. It is greatly shortened from the play: the stage production lasts six hours and is sometimes performed over two evenings, while the film runs the usual two hours.

Plot

Gordon Shaw was a flyer who was shot down and killed during World War I. Nina (Norma Shearer) would have married him before he left, but her father forbade the marriage. Charlie (Ralph Morgan) is a friend, but Nina does not love him; and he is too timid, too shy, to tell her the way he feels about her. Sam (Alexander Kirkland) is her husband, but her love for him disappears after the ceremony, when she finds out that there is mental illness in his family and that there can be no children.

To have the child she wants, but cannot have with Sam, she has a secret affair with Ned (Clark Gable), who wants her to leave Sam. Gordon Evans (Robert Young) is the result of the affair, but he does not know Ned is his real father. Nina continues to play with the emotions of all three men and devote herself only to Gordon.

Cast (in credits order)

Box Office

According to MGM records the film earned $957,000 in the US and Canada and $280,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $90,000.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study

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