Genre:
Romance
Release Date: 05/25/2004
Run Time: 85 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Alpha Video
The first film version of
Philip Barry's Broadway play
The Animal Kingdom stars
Ann Harding,
Leslie Howard and
Myrna Loy.
Howard plays a wealthy publisher who decides to marry the socially prominent
Loy, leaving his mistress
Harding in the lurch. In comically convoluted fashion,
Loy behaves like a callous libertine, while
Harding is the soul of love and fidelity. The frustrated
Howard declares at the end that he is going back to his "wife"--meaning, of course, the faithful
Harding.
Animal Kingdom was long withdrawn from public view due to the 1946 remake
One More Tomorrow; a pristine 35-millimeter print was discovered in the
Warner Bros. vaults in the mid-1980s.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide