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This Reckless Age

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This Reckless Age
Directed byFrank Tuttle
Written byLewis Beach (play The Goose Hangs High)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (screenplay)
Produced byJesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor
StarringCharles "Buddy" Rogers
CinematographyHenry Sharp
Music byJohn Leipold
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • January 9, 1932 (1932-01-09)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

This Reckless Age is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers and produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a Broadway play The Goose Hangs High by Lewis Beach.[1][2]

One of over 700 Paramount films controlled by Universal Pictures, which in 1948 purchased most of the 1928-1948 Paramount library.[citation needed]

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Critical Response

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As reviewer Clara M. Sawdon opined in International Photographer: "Pictures such as this are rare because they are much more difficult to produce than sensational or spectacular ones, but they are welcome innovations, especially when accomplished with such satisfactory coordination of effort as herein evidenced."[3]

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  1. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40 published by The American Film Institute (1993)
  2. ^ The Goose Hangs High on Broadway at the Bijou Theatre, January 29, 1924 to June 1924, IBDb.com; accessed November 26, 2015.
  3. ^ Sawdon, Clara M. "When Seen Through Feminine Eyes." The International Photographer Vol. 3 No. 12 p34. February, 1932. Accessed 7 May 2023.
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