6/10
One Sunday Afternoon is the first of two versions of the same story I'm reviewing on this site
19 June 2015
There are two versions of this movie that I'll review on this site back to back. This is the 1933 version. Gary Cooper plays Biff Grimes, a dentist whose old rival (Neil Hamilton) comes to his office by surprise. We see in flashback scenes how they both had designs on Fay Wray which Neil got while Cooper ended up with her friend, Frances Fuller. Some other complications follow before the ending. I'll just now say while there's some humor, it's mostly pretty dramatic concerning these players and it's not always a pleasant sight to see and hear what happens. According to this site, this was originally 85 min. but the DVD case says 69. In any case, there did seem some missing sequences when some events are only referred to and not shown. So possibly that may be a reason I wasn't satisfied enough with the version I saw. Still, it seemed partly good especially with the conclusion that happened. (The fact I watched much of this late at night and then the last 30 min. in the morning may have something to do with those last two comments.) So on that note, I say One Sunday Afternoon is worth a look. P.S. Because I like to cite when members of my favorite movie-It's a Wonderful Life-are in something else, well, actually it's the father of the one who played Harry Bailey in that one-Todd Karns-who's in this one, Roscoe Karns as Snappy. And, of course, Ms. Wray was becoming an icon earlier in the year in the original King Kong, and Hamilton would eventually become one as well decades later as Commissioner Gordon in the campy version of the "Batman" TV show.
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