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Information
- Year
- 1936
- Runtime
- 80 min.
- Director
- George Fitzmaurice
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Rating *
- 6.4
- Votes *
- 191
- Checks
- 54
- Favs
- 4
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 7.4% (1:14)
- Favs/dislikes
- 4:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
The 1930s loved its jungle movies, and they're all pretty difficult to watch today because of how the "primitives" are portrayed. Sometimes, the jungle is the Arctic, and he same problem crops up with Inuit characters. That's really Petticoat Fever's only crime, as Robert Montgomery is too goofy to be any kind of real threat despite not being able to take "no" from Myrna Loy's stranded pilot. Movie's not woke is what I'm sayin'. If it flies at all, it's thanks to genial performances from the two leads, and every objection we might have to their relationship (would Myrna really want to live in Nowhere, Labrador? does she actually love her foot-stamping fiancé? does Montgomery love his own?) are dispelled by various plot contrivances. It's silly fluff, and completely harmless in intent, even if the execution shows the era's biases. I do find it questionable that Montgomery doesn't even try to have a British accent when he's meant to be from the UK (which owned Labrador at the time). 4 years 11 months ago