Two golf widows, Ethel Dixon (Kathleen Key) and Mary Ward (Sally Rand), decide to get even with their husbands, John Dixon (Will Stanton) and Ernest Ward (Vernon Dent), by going to the Tijuana horse-races with a wealthy broker, Billy Gladstone (John Patrick) and an insurance salesman Charles Bateman (Harrison Ford). Complications arise when Bateman's fiancee Alice Anderson (Vera Reynolds) shows up.
If you have an hour to kill and a high tolerance for the kind of frantic, slightly repetitive humor that defined late-20s silent comedies, Golf Widows is worth a look. It’s not a masterpiece, and it’s certainly not going to change your life, but it’s a fascinating little time capsule of 1928 frustrations. If you hate s...
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Erle C. Kenton
Charley Chase
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"If you have an hour to kill and a high tolerance for the kind of frantic, slightly repetitive humor that defined late-20s silent comedies, Golf Widows is worth a look. It’s not a masterpiece, and it’s certainly not going to change your life, but it’s a fascinating little time capsule of 1928 frustrations. If you hate slapstick or get annoyed by characters making the worst possible decisions for the sake of a plot, you should probably skip this one. But for anyone who enjoys seeing the 'other' Ha..."
Sally Rand
Scott Darling
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