In real life and in
films I absolutely hate when people start drama between two other people. That
one person who starts the drama is usually jealous and wants something or
someone for themselves. That is pretty much the entire hour and three minute
story of The Saturday Night Kid.
Mayme (Clara Bow) and her sister Janie (Jean Arthur) live
and work together at a department store. Also working at the department store
and living in the same apartment building is Bill Taylor. Mayme really likes
Bill and he likes her as well. Janie is jealous of her sister going out with
Bill. The sisters do not really get along that well. Janie is always wearing
Mayme’s things without asking and doing other mischievous things with Mayme’s
belongings.
Mayme is usually late for work. Janie on the other hand
is always on time even though she leaves after her sister by hitching rides
with strangers which Mayme does not like at all. The department store is
putting on a show for a charity with the employees as the actors. Mayme and
Jane are chosen for two of the characters and Janie is also chosen as treasurer
for the charity money since she is always on time for work. That same day a
female customer comes in and flirts with Bill. Mayme does not that like that
all so when the customer is on an exercise machine she cranks it up and the
customer is all in a fit about it. Bill gets mad at Mayme for driving away a
sale and for her behavior. Mayme does not go home with Bill or her sister that
night. Bill comes back to the apartment to find only Janie home. Janie decides
to start her nasty wedge between Bill her sister right then and there.
Janie’s plan works for a while and then fantastically
back fires when she gambles the money from the charity away on a horse race and
she blames Mayme as the one who gambled the money. Mayme slaps the ever living
hell out of her sister for the crap she pulled. Bill forgives her in a very
cheesy ending. She had nothing to forgive him about why the hell was she
apologizing?! Damn classic films in moments like this!
The Saturday Night
Kid was disappointing. I have read and heard that it is a classic Pre-Code
that was good. I will say it was great to finally hear Clara Bow talk after
seeing her in so many silent films. I liked hearing her voice to go along with
that attitude she had. Jean Arthur as much as I love the woman was not good in
this film. It could have been her character that I could not get into or it
could have been that this one of her early speaking roles. I will only say to
watch The Saturday Night Kid if you
are a fan of either Clara Bow, Jean Arthur, or Pre-Code films otherwise skip
it.
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