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Information
- Year
- 1932
- Runtime
- 73 min.
- Director
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Genre
- Comedy
- Rating *
- 6.7
- Votes *
- 273
- Checks
- 55
- Favs
- 0
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 0.0% (0:55)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
High Pressure is a 1932 William Powell vehicle, and indeed, it's a bit of a one-man show. He's lively, smart and funny. Everyone else is either just okay, unfunny, or terrible. Lookin' at you, Evelyn Brent! For a movie in which chemistry is actually a plot point, the two romantic leads certainly don't have any. Brent looks like she's sleeping through her scenes. Powell plays a con man who gets into business with more fortunate souls, lives large off their money, until he can sell the bogus company for a profit. But it's like they don't really want Powell to be that much of a rascal, so it's all a bit muddy. The best version of this is that he's playing everyone for fools and the chemist was in his pocket to begin with. Then it might make sense if he felt guilty about some of the people he bilked who didn't deserve it. But the film gets confused about his criminality and so we're denied a real con man movie payoff. Oh well. Powell is still fun to watch, talking circles around everyone else. 4 years 4 months ago