Dance, Fools, Dance

A depression era gangster movie with Joan Crawford & Clark Gable! And it's so half-hearted it's almost comical. Difficult to feel sympathy for the spoiled kids. One starts working for the mob, Crawford for a newspaper. The acting, the story direction and just about everything that happened was poorly executed. Including Crawford's dancing. Most of all the romance. As for Gable the gangster.... alright, nothing more. The movie was easily at it's best when he was on screen.

This movie kinda fails to engage. The main characters are not sorry at all when their father dies suddenly, but they're very sorry indeed when they find immediately afterward that he didn't leave them any money. This renders all later attempts at drama concerning them completely impotent