Women Must Dress

Gavin Gordon has been married to Minna Gombell for a long time. He has a spunky mother-in-law in Zeffie Tillbury, a pretty daughter in Suzanne Kaaren and a fine prospective son-in-law in Doctor Hardie Albright. He's a thoroughly contented man. Then one day he misses the train from Forest Hills into New York City. He's resigned to waiting for the next one, but neighbor Lenita Lane offers him a ride in her car. It becomes a regular thing. One day he almost strays with Miss Lane, and hastily retreats.... and then realizes he doesn't want to.

Produced and co-written by Dorothy Davenport, this is a remarkably adult movie, about how perfectly nice people can foul up their lives, and the difficulties involved in getting them back on track. I'm not convinced by the ending, which seems a little too neat, but the rest of it has people being adults, dealing with situations in a way that the Production Code does not seem to have contemplated: like people who know they have to deal with the realities of the world. Given the state of the world as I write this, it seems remarkable.