75%User score 75 percent
City Girl
1930 · Drama · Romance
User Score
141 votes
The Love That Lifted a Man to Paradise......and Hurled Him Back to Earth Again
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Recommendations based on this film
CinemaSerf
June 13, 2022
I can tell when I am engaged with a film if I want to get off the chair and strangle one of the cast... Well Leslie Howard engenders exactly that feeling as he plays the hapless, lovestruck "Philip" who has fallen in love with the nasty, scheming "Mildred" - Bette Davis (with a rather dodgy English agent). The chemistry between the two of them is great. She treats him appallingly, yet like a doting puppy he comes bac…
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August 27, 2022
Early on in Of Human Bondage Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) is told “You will never be anything but mediocre.” Soon after, Mildred Rogers is described as “anemic … ill-natured and contemptible.” Neither will ever do anything to disprove these assessments. Carey especially will never be able to overcome his weakness; he was literally born with a clubfoot, but his real problem is that he never develops a figurative spine…
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