Beware of Bachelors

CinematographyNorbert Brodine
Frank KessonEdited byRalph DawsonDistributed byWarner Bros.64 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSound (Part-Talkie)
English Intertitles

Beware of Bachelors is a 1928 American part-talkie pre-code comedy drama film produced and released by Warner Bros., and directed by Roy Del Ruth. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The movie stars Audrey Ferris, William Collier Jr., Margaret Livingston, Clyde Cook, and George Beranger. The film was based on a short story by Mark Canfield (an alias for Darryl F. Zanuck).^[1][2]

Plot

A young doctor (William Collier Jr.) is accused by his pretty wife (Audrey Ferris) of paying too much attention to one of his woman patients (Margaret Livingston) when she makes a pass at him. Ferris, assuming that her husband is having an affair, decide to have one herself with a perfumer, played by George Beranger. Wife and husband make up but they soon quarrel once again when the jealous wife finds her husband at a cafe with Livingston. Ferris decides to leave her husband and starts going out with Beranger to wild parties. Eventually, Ferris decides that she truly loves Collier and can't live without him. They are reconciled and Ferris returns to her husband.

Cast

• Audrey Ferris as May, the wife
• William Collier Jr. as Ed, the husband
• Clyde Cook as Joe Babbitt
• George Beranger as Claude de Brie
• Dave Morris as Detective
• Margaret Livingston as Miss Pfeffer, the vamp

Preservation status

A 35mm copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation^[3] in Washington, D.C., and a 16mm copy survives at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.^[4]

See also

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

References

Notes

External links

• Beware of Bachelors at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie