Riptide

Riptide (1934)

  • 56% of users liked it
    (106 ratings)

A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip Tide is a standard-issue Norma Shearer soap opera. Shearer plays Mary, a footloose and fancy-free American heiress who weds British nobleman Lord Rexford (Herbert Marshall).… More

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PG, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By
Edmund Goulding
Genres
Drama, Romance
In Theaters
Mar 30, 1934 Wide
On DVD
Feb 23, 1994
Warner Bros.

Critic Reviews

  • Bryant Frazer, Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

    Gets wrapped up ever-tighter around one very small idea — the notion that a marriage requires much honesty and patience in order to work.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Routine Norma Shearer (wife of MGM producer Irving Thalberg) romantic love triangle melodrama.

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  • nefnie l


    As I started to watch this film, I thought it was going to be a comedy. The characters of Marshall and Shearer meet for the first time dressed as insects. Shearer plays a woman who gives up her carefree New York lifestyle to marry the Lord (played stodgily by Marshall) and lives… More

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