Animal Kingdom

Wonton, carefree playboy Tom (Leslie Howard) is the salaciously behaving heir to a publishing fortune. At his father´s insistence, Tom decides to become respectable and marry "good girl" socialite Cecilia (Myrna Loy). Ruefully, Tom discards his capricious, free-spirited mistress Daisy (Ann Harding) and tearfully bids farewell to the pleasure and follies of youth. However, Tom and Cecelia´s union is without love and Cecilia´s passion is corrupt, icy and calculated. Once married, it is Cecelia, ironically, who embarks on a series of wild carnal adventures, while Daisy, once an advocate of free love, pines away for Tom.

Produced by the legendary David O´Selznick and based on the play by Phillip Barry (The Philadelphia Story), The Animal Kingdom is a tart and strikingly sophisticated martini-dry drawing room comedy of sexual intrigue and social observation reminiscent of Noel Coward and Henrik Ibsen. Featuring an all star cast at the top of their game, this pre-code shocker is a frank and explicit romance of the unspecified adult desires that throbbed beneath the surface of 1930´s high society.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 17 Juni, 2006