Main Cast: Constance Bennett, Neil Hamilton, Helen Vinson, Allen Vincent, Gavin Gordon
Release Year: 1932
Country: US
Run Time: 80 minutes
Plot
Constance Bennett suffers nobly in this outdated but fairly engrossing melodrama in which a seemingly hardened debutante takes the blame for the mistakes of her siblings. When her sister Corinne (Helen Vinson) gets in trouble with a married man (Gavin Gordon), Ardell Hamilton (Bennett) accepts culpability in her stead. She performs the same service for ne'er-do-well brother Bob (Allen Vincent) when he is accused of murdering the philanderer, and who should be the prosecuting attorney in the case but honest, hardworking David Norton (Neil Hamilton), with whom Ardell has fallen in love. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
Review
Constance Bennett, we are told, was one of the most sophisticated women of her generation. The same, apparently, is true of the character she is given to play in Two Against the World, Ardell Hamilton, a society wildflower who smokes cigarettes right beneath signs warning of "No Smoking" just to prove her independence and worldliness. But like most of Miss Bennett's heroines, Ardell soon enough succumbs to the same malaise that afflicted the likes of Ann Harding, Helen Twelvetrees, and other leading ladies of the early '30s: a seemingly incurable case of lachrymosity. Luckily, such scene-stealers as Helen Vinson, Leila Bennett (as a woman bootlegger, no less), and Alan Mowbray are also on hand, and despite its strained plot, Two Against the World remains a fairly entertaining example of that all but vanished genre -- the woman's picture. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
Archie Mayo - Director, Bert Levy - Editor, Charles Rosher Sr. - Cinematographer, Lucien Hubbard - Producer, Sheridan Gibney - Screenwriter, Marion Dix - Play Author, Jerry Horwin - Play Author
