Valerie Hobson

Paul Harvey

G.P. Huntley

Betty Compson

Frank Melton

Edgar Norton

Gigi Parrish

Maynard Holmes

Claire McDowell

Howard Hickman

Paul West

Charles Lamont

Faith Baldwin

Paul Perez

Drama

August Week End

Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation (I)

United States of America

CinemaSerf

The wealthy Washburne family are having a soiree during which we are presented with a family of fairly objectionable rich people who obsess about themselves, their money and care little for anyone else. Valerie Hobson is "Claire", a young beauty objectified by the elder Washburne (Paul Harvey) but fancied by a younger, less successful man from her town "Kim" (G.P. Huntley). What ensues is a fast moving, mildly amusing, but very simplistic social class drama with the stereotypes abounding all over the place. The writing is a wee bit dull, the direction is remarkably two-dimensional and there is precious little chemistry on screen - indeed, Hobson seems quite distinctly out of sorts with her co-stars. I reckon it could work better on a stage, keeping the focus of this conceivably quite pithy and entertaining character study more focussed than in this rather meandering cinematic flop. As it is, it's a bit of a waste of effort all round.

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