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Recaptured Love

Recaptured Love (1930)

1h 5m | PG-13

⭐ 5 / 10

In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man and becomes jealous.

Director: John G. Adolfi

Studio: The Vitaphone Corporation

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Video: 720p

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Cast

Belle Bennett

Belle Bennett

as Helen Parr

John Halliday

John Halliday

as Brentwood Parr

Dorothy Burgess

Dorothy Burgess

as Peggy Price

George Bickel

George Bickel

as Crofts

Richard Tucker

Richard Tucker

as Rawlings

Brooks Benedict

Brooks Benedict

as Pat